LIFT BARGES

For decades, heavy lift cranes have been deployed in offshore oil and gas fields for installation
purposes. Heavy-lift barges are used to both transport the equipment offshore and lift it into place via
powerful cranes.

With lifting capacities greater than 10,000 tons, heavy lift cranes are many times used in single-lift
operations. In other words, the equipment, such as topsides, are lifted from the barge and mated with
the facility jacket in one heavy lift.

Requiring less muscle, major marine installations can be divided into modular lifts. For example, a
processing facility can be fabricated in multiple modules that are then installed offshore one by one.