A summary of Key features of the Utility Barge Marine Spread:

• Shallow draft of 1.2 to 1.3m with thicker keel plate of 16mm for grounding where operations dictate.
• Overall layout of the barge with in-built piping system and below deck mooring system conserves deck space during marine operations.
• Power generation system with two (2) units of 300 kVa and emergency 25kVa generators and fully integrated switchboard.
• 90 tone Crawler crane.
• Equipped with lifting padeyes for transport by heavy lift vessel
• Equipped with 3 units 18.0 metre independently driven Spuds for Shallow water Pre-trenching (to water depths of approximately 13 metres).  
• Centrally controlled (with manual override) 8 point below deck mooring system (10 ton air driven winches c/w compressors and 2 x 22 m3 air receivers) and 1.5 tonne delta flipper anchors.
• 90 tone Crawler crane.
• In-house DGPS Barge and Tug Management Survey system.
• Diving work boat
• Knuckle Boom utility crane
• Designed to support pre-trenching, post trenching, small pipelay and other marine construction operations such as pipeline pre-commissioning, free span corrections and general marine intervention work. Can fulfil multiple functions saving the possible need for additional mobilisation of additional expensive marine support vessels.
• 2 units Cat 390 long boom excavators with 2.0 m3 buckets to support pre-trenching work
• 90 tonne long boom excavators provided for pre-trenching support.
• Can be fitted with OCS Trailing arm for pre and post trenching in water depths to 30 metres (unique feature).
• 60 tonne removable stern A-frame.
• Tug support provided from an in-house multi-cat shallow anchor handling tug.
• Barge is strengthened to accommodate a crawler crane up to 200 tonne capacity in special circumstances
• In-house Air Diving system.