Solitaire (ship)
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Solitaire is a large deep-sea pipe laying ship. It was at the time of conversion the world's largest pipe-laying ship at Script error: No such module "convert". long (excluding pipe-laying apparatus)[1] and Script error: No such module "convert"..[2] When fully operational she has a crew of 420,[2] a pipe carrying capacity of 22,000 tonnes and a pipe lay speed of more than Script error: No such module "convert". a day.[3] The ship is owned by the Allseas Group, a Dutch pipelaying and marine construction firm with their headquarters in Switzerland.[4]
History
The ship was initially built in 1972 as a bulk carrier and launched as Trentwood by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at their shipyard in Hiroshima, Japan.[5]
In 1992, Allseas acquired Trentwood for conversion into a pipelaying vessel. Allseas awarded the conversion contract to Sembawang Shipyards in Singapore on a lump sum basis; however, the contract was terminated in 1995. The ship was subsequently converted at the Swan Hunter yard on Tyneside, United Kingdom.[6] Solitaire laid her first pipe on Statoil's Europipe project in 1999.[7]
Allseas and Sembcorp reached a settlement for the Solitaire arbitration in 2006.[8]
In 2006, while working on the Atwater Valley and Independence Trail projects in the Gulf of Mexico, Solitaire set new depth records, laying 10-inch pipeline in a water depth of Script error: No such module "convert". and 24-inch pipeline in a water depth of Script error: No such module "convert"..[9]
Among other ships, Solitaire laid the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea in 2019—2020.[10]
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External links
- 2min Video on YouTubeScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., from Mighty Ships