The Falcon, from Stolt Comex Seaway to GSP

A Reel Lay System with Firing Line

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 The Falcon, from Stolt Comex Seaway to GSP
Seaway Falcon
The Seaway Falcon is a Rigid
and Flexible Lay Vessel, with
Tiltable J-Lay Tower on the stern
for Rigid Pipeline and Vertical
Lay System on the midship
through a moonpool.
She can store 2000te of pipe on
board and 1600te of Flexible
flowline and umbilical. A deck
mounted reel can also be
deployed for the piggyback line.
Picture source refers to https://www.offshore-technology.com/projects/scarab/
 The Falcon, from Stolt Comex Seaway to GSP
GSP Falcon

From the above pictures, it shows that GSP removed the Vertical Flex-Lay System and changed the
Seaway Falcon crane to a Knuckle Boom type of Crane.

Picture source refers to https://www.balticshipping.com/vessel/imo/7409401

 The Falcon, from Stolt Comex Seaway to GSP
Seaway Falcon

Vertical Lay
Deck Radius Controller
Ramp Radius Controller

System
Deck Tensioner
Weld Station area Weld Station area

Carousel

Moon pool Pipe Storage Area Under Deck

Piggyback Reel
Lay Tower

Pipe Storage at Deck

Pictures / images are presented for illustration purposes only.

The Falcon, from Stolt Comex Seaway to GSP
deepLay notes
Generally, Reel-Lay vessel is the most economical pipelay system. The vessel comes to spoolbase, spool-
on the pipe and go to the field and lay the pipe but when the pipeline length is longer than reel capacity,
the Reel-Lay vessel needs to go back to spoolbase for the next spooling-on trip. And if spoolbase is far
from the installation field, the travelling time will incur high cost to overall installation campaign.
However, the beauty of "Falcon" is to install the pipeline like J-Lay Reel Vessel along with firing line
welding stations like S-Lay. Even if the spoolbase is far from the field and/or the Spooling Trips is more
than a single trip, the Falcon is more economical than any general Reel-Lay Vessel.
Falcon is a very successful installation vessel during Stolt Comex Seaway, Stolt Offshore and Acergy. She
has been sold to GSP, and since then her works on Reel-Lay installation has become unknown.
The Reel-Lay pipeline installation work requires an experienced offshore team to cooperate with the
onshore engineering team; without those reliable and seamless supports, it will be difficult for the vessel to
win jobs and to execute them.
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