Shell appointed Zenith to design and install a temporary lifting davit, to facilitate the replacement of a 710 kgs flare tip on Shell’s FPSO Curlew located in the North Sea.

The design, supply and installation of the temporary lifting davit was carried out completely in-house. The advantages in choosing this option are:

• Proven safe method.
• Cost savings when compared with
• expensive helicopters & barge cranes.
• Gantry steelwork incorporates details
• for secondary method of flare tip
• lowering in the event the main hoist fails.
• Full gantry test build undertaken in our yard to check fitting and constructability.
• Gantry test – Experienced installation crew selected. Same crew used to carry out gantry test build undertaken in our – yard to check fitting and constructability.

Brackets for installation access support built into the gantry steel work for quick and safe installation.