Project
Maintenance in below-freezing temperatures
Achievement
Ampelmann enabled year-round offshore operations in extreme cold weather
Oil & Gas
N
Maintenance
10 years
Challenge
Our client needed a winterised version of a motion compensating gangway system in order to continue operations on its Oil & Gas platforms during the extreme cold winter season.
Solution
In close collaboration with the client and over 50 suppliers, Ampelmann developed the N-type Icemann. The system is fully operational down to -28°C and has enabled the client to operate year-round despite the extreme cold weather.
"When we first approached Ampelmann with the idea to design us a winter version of a heave compensated gangway, very few people believed that it would be ever achievable. Now we can feel the difference it brought to us: year-round operations, higher efficiency, higher redundancy and safety!"
