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Altrad supports decommissioning of DP3 gas platform

8 June 2021

Altrad has supported Worley, and their client Allseas, with a range of services to enable the safe removal of Spirit Energy’s 11,000 tonne platform, DP3, at Morecambe Bay in the eastern Irish Sea. The decommissioning platform will be lifted and taken back to shore by Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit – the world’s largest construction vessel.

Altrad’s scope included access scaffolding, complex rigging and the cutting and disassembly of caissons, conductors and platform legs. These essential, time critical works, were required prior to the removal of the platform via a single heavy lift.

The entire work scope was completed safely, without incident and within the condensed eight-week window permitted by the work schedule. Read more…


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