Half-yearly newsletter • Issue 2 • april 2004 • www.sarens.com

Dear Reader, In line with our company policy to excel in performance and reliability, we are continuously upgrading our fleet. To be able to continue to provide first-class services, we have recently acquired the following state-of-the-art equipment: - A 1,250 tonnes capacity Demag CC 8800 crawler crane (of the 1,500 tonnes class) which was purchased at the end of 2003. - Three 350 tonnes Liebherr LR 1350/1 crawler cranes which were ordered in February 04 and will join the fleet in 2004. - Seven Hitachi Sumitomo SCX 2500 crawler cranes which will be delivered in 2004. - Sixty Kamag SPMT (self propelled modular trailer) lines which will be delivered in 2004. Apart from these additions to our fleet, we continue to replace older special equipment as well as telescopic cranes. To further support our worldwide activities, a strong project management department was created at our Head Office in Wolvertem, Belgium (see last page). Enjoy this 2nd edition of Heavyweight News.

Ludo Sarens CEO Sarens Group

Heavy Lifting Project on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea Customer: CCIC (Consolidated Contractors Int’l Company) / Greece - Marathon Oil / US Location: Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea (West-Africa) Equipment Used: Demag CC 8800

At the beginning of January 2004, Demag delivered a brand new CC 8800 lattice boom crawler crane from its 1,500 tonnes class capacity category. The crane was immediately sent to Bioko Island near Malabo in Equatorial Guinea - West-Africa. There, the Demag, in SSL configuration, will handle all heavy lifting works for CCIC Greece. The major one was the lift of a fractionator of 400 T at a radius of 17m. CCIC is one of the main contractors of Marathon Oil, US.

Replacing Railway Bridges in Paris, France Customer: SNCF Location: Pantin, Paris / France Equipment Used: SPMT’s, 600 ton climbing system, sartrain, Strand Jacks

Five bridge floorings of a railway bridge the road using Kamags, a 600 ton climb- In a second stage, the old near Paris, dating from 1900, needed to ing system, a custom-built supporting bridge heads were replaced by be replaced with minimal disturbance to platform and trolleys. new prefabricated ones using rail and road traffic. Replacing the bridge In the first stage, the custom-built trolleys the same lifting concept, floorings using traditional methods would were placed on the supporting platforms completed with Strand Jacks. have required closing the bridge for six and those platforms on a climbing system The new bridge flooring was weekends. on top of the Kamags, all underneath the then lifted and moved to the site The Sarens Group and project partner bridge. The old 85 tonnes bridge flooring the same way. Finally, the new Rabot Dutilleul devised an innovative tech- was lifted with the 600 ton climbing 138 tonnes bridge flooring was nique which caused minimal disturbance system. Afterwards we made a connec- transferred from the railway onto to traffic, made the project less compli- tion with the existing railway and the the supporting platform and cated and reduced the timeschedule. trolleys were used to remove the bridge manoeuvred into place by the The old bridge floorings were lifted from by rail. Kamags. Assembling a Tower Crane in Liège, Belgium Customer: Neremat Location: Gare Guillemins Liège / Belgium Equipment Used: Liebherr LTM 1160/2 / Liebherr LTM 1300/1 / Demag AC 700

In Autumn 2003, one of the Belgian LTM 1160/2 and a Liebherr LTM 1300/1 to after the successful assembly. Sarens-tele entities was asked by execute the job safely. Neremat in Ingelmunster, Belgium, to First the Demag AC 700 lowered the Liebherr assemble a Potain MD 1000 tower crane LTM 1160/2 into the pit. Then the Liebherr in Liège. LTM 1300/1 transferred the tower crane The major challenge was that the tower components from the edge of the building pit crane had to be positioned at the bottom to within reach of the Liebherr LTM 1160/2 as of a 20 m deep building excavation. a service crane. Finally, the tower crane was Because the tower crane was located assembled at a height of 24 m using the approximately 70 m from the edge of the Liebherr LTM 1160/2. building pit, 3 different telescopic cranes The photograph shows the Liebherr LTM were used: a Demag AC 700, a Liebherr 1160/2 being lifted out of the excavation pit

Rebuilding the Sloboda Bridge over the Danube River

Customer: DSD Stahlbau / Germany Location: Novi Sad / Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Equipment Used: Demag TC 2000

The Sloboda (Liberty) Bridge in Novi Sad Danube of debris and to reconstruct the was almost completely destroyed by Sloboda Bridge. NATO action to end the civil war in former Following public tendering, the contract to Yugoslavia. The Sloboda Bridge was the reconstruct the bridge was awarded to DSD major link between the old and the new Stahlbau, who subcontracted the crane city district. works to the Sarens Group. The Sarens lattice The European Agency for Reconstruction boom Demag TC 2000 was transferred from considered the restoration of navigation Croatia to Yugoslavia. The work, which is on the Danube of economic and carried out from both banks of the Danube, commercial, environmental, cultural and will take about 15 months. political importance to Europe. It also recognized the importance of the Sloboda Bridge to the inhabitants of Novi Sad. The Agency donated funds to clear the

Heavy Lifting Work for a Power Plant in Santurce, Spain Customer: Ciclo Combinado de Santurce UTE (Cobra, Ghesa, Gamesa) Location: Santurce / Spain Equipment Used: Liebherr LR 1750; Liebherr LTM 1400

In August / September 2003, the Sarens equipment within a very limited space. We Group together with CEIT carried out used a Liebherr LTM 1400 service & tail crane heavy lifting work for an electricity plant to assemble the Liebherr LR 1750 main extension in Santurce near Bilbao in crawler crane which was required for the Spain. The work consisted of: heavy lifting works for the power plant. - Transporting and lifting 18 modules of a Heat Recovery Steam Generator 2 The Liebherr LR 1750, in the SLDBW- (HRSG), each weighing between 105 91m configuration, was used to unload the and 140 tonnes. modules. - Transporting and lifting three boiler drums weighing 125 tonnes, 40 tonnes 3 Subsequently, the modules were set on and 25 tonnes. end using the Liebherr LR 1750 as the main - Assembling a 75 m high chimney from crane, the LTM 1400 (TA) for tailing. components weighing between 35 and 95 tonnes. Finally, the modules were lifted and manoeu- vred into position using a custom made 1 The Sarens Group again built on its sliding beam. extensive experience in assembling lifting 2

1 3 Installing the Roof of the “Multifunktionsarena” in Düsseldorf, Germany Customer: Hollandia-Bailey / The Netherlands Location: Düsseldorf / Germany Equipment Used: Tower Lifting System / LR1400 / LR1280 & LR1750 Crawler Cranes / SPMT’s

At the end of 2003, the Sarens Group each). The Sarens Group used a 500 tonnes received from Hollandia-Bailey in The LR 1400 crawler crane and a 280 tonnes LR Netherlands a major order to carry out all 1280 crawler crane for the pre-assembly heavy lifting work for the roof installation works and the installation of the secondary of the Düsseldorf Multifunktionsarena beams. This first part of the project has been (Germany). completed according to schedule. For this turnkey heavy lifting job, the In April 2004, two Liebherr LR 1750 cranes project management team decided to with a lattice boom capacity of more than 600 use a tower lifting system for the installa- tonnes will be used to erect the last heavy tion of the two main beams (160 m long, part of the roof, the ‘flap roof’ section. 20 m high and weighing 1,600 tonnes

Refinery Project in Bourgas Total Pilot Wind Farm in (FCC revamp), Bulgaria Dunkerque, France Customer: Lukoil Neftochim Customer: TOTAL Location: Bourgas / Bulgaria Location: Wind Farm of Mardyck, Raffinerie des Flandres, Dunkerque / France Equipment Used: Demag CC 2800 Equipment Used: Demag CC 2800 + tail & service cranes

The Sarens Group has assisted in the respectively 30 m using superlift ballast. In line with the European Directive to reconstruction and modernization of the Because the new reactor heads had promote electricity from renewable energy catalyst cracking installation of the Lukoil much longer dip legs, they had to be sources, TOTAL has developed a pilot refinery in Bourgas (Bulgaria). lifted and manoeuvred into position with wind farm in the industrial complex of The project presented us with several only millimetres spare. Mardyck,. The wind turbines of the most challenges. The space available for Time was limited too: within a mere of five recent generation can produce approxi- assembling the required Demag CC 2800 weeks, one reactor and one regenerator mately 12 MW of electricity - enough to crawler crane and for installing the equip- — including its auxiliary equipment — cover the domestic power consumption ment was very limited. had to be replaced. of 15,000 people. Furthermore, the heaviest parts, the The demanding time schedule and the Three different types of wind turbines (two reactor and the regenerator heads, space constraints made extreme preci- Nordex N80, two Vestas V80 and one weighed between 90 and 193 tonnes, sion and careful planning and handling a General Electric Wind Energy GE 3.2 had to be picked up at a distance of 18 must for success. turbine) have been installed. This will allow TOTAL to compare the performance of different technologies in view of future developments. The Sarens Group used a Demag CC2800 crane (in SWSL 72 m/42 m configuration) to assemble the five wind turbines in August / September 2003. The dimensions of the wind turbines are impressive. The Nordex and Vestas wind turbines are 80 m high and the wings measure 80 m in diameter. The GE wind turbine towers are 100 m high and its blades are 50 m long. The weights involved are equally breathtaking: the heaviest part on top of the Nordex turbine weighs 95 tonnes and the total weight of the nacelle is 170 tonnes; the rotor and the three blades of the GE wind turbine weigh 91 tonnes. Transporting, temporarily storing and lifting components of such exceptional dimensions required careful planning. Perfect collaboration between the differ- ent partners during all stages was the key to success in this demanding project.

Bonga Project for Oil and If you would like Gas Exploitation in Nigeria to receive our newsletter per Customer: AMEC Location: Wallsend assembly site / UK - final destination Nigeria e-mail in the Equipment Used: 2 x Liebherr LR 1800 future, please Following recent discoveries of additional gas equipment on the Floating Production, reserves, Nigeria wishes to capitalise part of Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel send an e-mail its huge resources. One of the fields marked Bonga. Two Liebherr LR 1800 cranes with your name and for exploitation is the Bonga oil and gas field, were used to assemble the heavy a deep-water offshore field 120 km from the modules and components which were e-mail address to Nigerian shoreline. introduced into the empty hull of the In Wallsend (UK), the Sarens Group UK ship. branch worked with AMEC to jointly assemble topsides oil and gas processing [email protected] Organisation Chart of the new “Combined Projects Departement” ofthenew“CombinedProjects Chart Organisation Tengiz inWestern OilProject Onshore Kazakhstan os pouto wt svn million seven with production will 2006, boost mid by stream on come will which Project, Generation Second The barrels. 9 billion of reserves oil proven has which Kazakhstan, Western in field oil onshore Tengiz huge the at located are projects These Kazakhstan. in Projects to Injection equipment for the Second Generation and Sour Gas lifting JV Daniel Fluor Parsons TengizChevrOil/ heavy deliver to contract the won Group Sarens The project management. and communication internal excellent of example another yet was project Group Sarens This satisfaction. 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