DEME’s newest, self-propelled DP2 jack-up vessel ‘Apollo’ was officially named in the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium on February 21, the company said in its release.
One of the exceptional features of the ‘Apollo’ are its extremely long lattice legs of 106.8 m, which allow the vessel to jack-up in water depths up to 65 m. The vessel is equipped with an 800-tonne, leg-encircling crane and has an unobstructed, spacious 2000 m² deck with a load carrying capacity of 15 t/m².
DEME has a full orderbook for ‘Apollo’ with a variety of projects in both the renewables and oil and gas market. The vessel will now be mobilised for pre-piling works at the Moray East offshore wind farm in the UK.