A mere 25 hours after the deck for the Gudrun platform left Aibel's shipyard in Haugesund, the deck had been lifted into place on the steel undercarriage in the North Sea.
"The operation has been safe and efficient with favourable sea conditions," says Øyvind Haugsdal, transport and installation manager for the Gudrun project.
He has been planning this lifting operation for the last three and a half years:
"It was an incredible feeling to watch it all go as planned," he says.
The platform deck was positioned on the undercarriage at 17:43 on Thursday. The lifting operation marks one of the most important milestones in the project.
Gudrun reached its full height of 232.5 metres when the flare tower was lifted into place on Friday morning.
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