Next month in Norway, Heerema's semi-submersible construction vessel Balder is due to be fitted with a J-lay tower designed and built for it by Huisman-Itrec that, like S7000, will also handle 32-inch ...

Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute has been granted approval in principle by Lloyd’s Register for a J-lay heavy lift vessel concept design. Lloyd’s said the vessel’s primary function ...

Medgaz will begin offshore pipelay of the 210 km, Algerian-European natural gas pipeline bearing its name in May 2008, using a combination of S-lay and J-lay techniques. Saipem SpA’s Castoro Sei ...

The largest component of the 120-meter J-Lay tower for one of the world’s biggest crane vessels, Saipem 7000, has been delivered by tug Fairmount Expedition offshore Burgas, Bulgaria. The tower ...

Laying pipe on the seafloor can pose a number of challenges, especially if the water is deep. There are three main ways that subsea pipe is laid -- S-lay, J-lay and tow-in -- and the pipelay vessel is ...

Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute has been granted approval in principle (AiP) by Lloyd’s Register (LR) for a J-lay heavy lift vessel concept design. The vessel’s primary function ...