The trailing hopper dredger Gerardus Mercator recently completed a trial trench excavation in the Westhinder Shipping Channel for Statoil's Norfra pipeline. The excavation was through more than 750 m of stiff clay containing boulders up to 1.2 m long, according to owner Jan De Nul N.V., Aalst, Belgium. The vessel is currently presweeping in front of EMC's laybarge Seamac 1 for the Bacton-Zeebrugge Interconnector pipeline. Later this month, it will return to the Westhinder Shipping
The trailing hopper dredger Gerardus Mercator recently completed a trial trench excavation in the Westhinder Shipping Channel for Statoil's Norfra pipeline. The excavation was through more than 750 m of stiff clay containing boulders up to 1.2 m long, according to owner Jan De Nul N.V., Aalst, Belgium.
The vessel is currently presweeping in front of EMC's laybarge Seamac 1 for the Bacton-Zeebrugge Interconnector pipeline. Later this month, it will return to the Westhinder Shipping Channel to complete the 4.5 km trench in front of ETPM's 1601 pipelay barge for the Norfra project.
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