WIND FULL POWER AHEAD. Transition Pieces for Horns Rev 3 Offshore Wind Farm. ALL FOR ONE Tower sections. REFINERY UPGRADE Refinery equipment

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1 THE SAL HEAVY LIFT MAGAZINE NO. 3 / 2018 Transition Pieces for Horns Rev 3 Offshore Wind Farm ALL FOR ONE Tower sections FULL WIND POWER AHEAD REFINERY UPGRADE Refinery equipment TWO RIVERS, ONE CHALLENGE Amur GPP Project

2 CONTENTS 2 IN THIS ISSUE 4 FULL WIND POWER AHEAD 49 Transition Pieces for the Horns Rev 3 Offshore Wind Farm 10 ALL FOR ONE Tower sections 14 REFINERY UPGRADE Refinery equipment 16 TWO RIVERS, ONE CHALLENGE Refinery equipment for Amur GPP Project 20 SNAPSHOT 22 WORKSHOP 23 SAFETY & TRAINING 24 INTERVIEW Up close with Ian Matheson 25 AWARDS, EVENTS 27 INSIDE SAL 28 REVIEWS 30 INSIDE SAL Nina s Ship s Log

3 3 Jan Meier FROM THE CEO DESK Dear reader, Autumn is long upon us and despite Indian summer weather well into October, we finally say farewell to an unusually warm summer in North Europe and start to greet winter. We traditionally face a busy autumn season both in terms of business and events. And we like to be busy. Volume improvements on typical trade lanes between Europe and Far East as well as small signs towards a tightening on the supply & demand side cast lights ahead of us. Whether for the wind or the sun, the heat from the earth whether from oil, coal or gas, or even agriculture energy is keeping the global wheels of commerce turning. Energy security, emissions and electrification is central to the agendas of many countries. It drives a change in the energy mix and fosters growth in cleaner electrification and energy storage. Energy also constitutes the largest business segment of SAL. You can say that energy literally propels our business. And as you will come to see, it is all about energy in this issue of Newsbreeze. Enjoy your reading, Martin Harren CEO

4 RENEWABLES 4 FULL WIND POWER AHEAD 49 Transition Pieces for Horns Rev 3 Offshore Wind Farm

5 5 TRANSITION PIECES The North Sea has recently become the staging post for a huge boom in offshore wind farms, resulting in the involvement of several offshore wind projects for the SAL team. Tying in with the on going Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm, GeoSea NV awarded SAL the transportation of 49 transition pieces (TPs) for the Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm.»

6 ENERGY 16 TWO RIVERS, ONE CHALLENGE Imagine you were assigned to ship over freight tons of cargo, including 12 columns weighing 900 tons each down a river with a water depth of only 1.10 metres in some areas and often severe weather conditions. Quite a challenge, right? THE CHALLENGE BECOMES REAL This task became real when Gazprom, The Linde Group, and NIPIGAS decided to realize the Gazprom Amur GPP Project one of the largest natural gas processing plants in the world, with a capacity of up to 42 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year. The plant is part of Gazprom s project for the supply of Russian gas to China via the Power of Siberia pipeline from eastern Siberian gas fields. And the only way to transport heavylift and oversized cargoes to the construction site is via the Amur and Zeya Rivers. AN INNOVATIVE SOLUTION To master this unique challenge, all cargo will be loaded onto heavy lift vessels in ports in Europe and Korea before being transferred to barges on the sheltered inner anchorage of the port of De-Kastri. Special shallow draft pusher tugs, which have been specially built for this project, will push the barges up the Amur and Zeya Rivers to Svobodny for discharging at the project jetty and transfer the cargo to the last mile logistics service provider. The cargo will be shipped in five phases from 2018 until 2022, taking advantage of the short ice-free periods on the Amur and Zeya Rivers. THE RIGHT JOB FOR SAL ENGINEERING Linde Group has contracted Combi Lift, a special project entity within the Harren & Partner Group, to handle the immense»

7 17 REFINERY EQUIPMENT SAL Heavy Lift, backed up by the experts of SAL Engineering, always makes an innovative and reliable logistics partner. Christian Herold, Project Logistics Manager, Linde AG AMUR GPP PROJECT Spanning kilometres, the Amur River is the world s tenth longest river, forming the border between the Russian Far East and North-eastern China. All project cargo arriving in this area needs to be discharged in Svobodny, located on the right bank of the Zeya River, a northern tributary of the Amur River. This is exactly the place where heavy lift transportation becomes challenging with water depths at times getting as low as only 1.10 metres. D

8 Rich J. Matheson WE INNOVATE SOLUTIONS Imprint Editors: Frederike Blömker, Christian Hoffmann Contact: Graphic Design: Claudia Badouin Photos (if not stated otherwise): SAL staff Published by: SAL Heavy Lift GmbH, Brooktorkai 20, Hamburg, Germany A member of the Harren & Partner Group SAL Heavy Lift 2018 All rights reserved FOLLOW SAL ON