THE UK OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS FABRICATORS DIRECTORY
2014
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Capabilities and Capacities – Facility 1, Rosyth
Other e.g. Licences,
Permissions, Warehouse
and Storage Size,
Engineering, Electrical
and Joiners Workshop
Size, etc.
• Babcock are currently upgrading the site – £100 million spent in the
last four years
• 2,100 metres of tidal and non-tidal berthing
• Sheltered non-tidal basin measuring 512 metres x 457 metres
• Coating workshop of 1,440 m
2
• Storage – 35,000 m
2
(mixed covered and uncovered)
• Electrical connection up to 11 kilovolts at 50 or 60 Hertz
• Unrestricted, direct access to sea
• Waterway shipyard – open sea 10.5 metres (basin depth) x
42 metres (direct entrance width) x 45.7 metres (forth bridges
navigable headway). However, only one of these limitations apply at
any one time
Capabilities and Capacities – Facility 2, Appledore
Total Area (m²)
81,000 m
2
Fabrication Area Covered (m²)
16,640 m
2
Assembly and Erection Area (m²)
8,036 m
2
Cranage – Lifting Capacity and Hook
Height (Tonnes and Metres)
• Main hall – overhead 2 x 60 tonnes
• Unit assembly area – Semi-Goliath 4 x 10 tonnes
• 28 overhead travelling Gantry Cranes (maximum lift of
60 tonnes safe work load)
Load-Out Capacity (Tonnes)
750 tonnes
Minimum Water Depth (Metres)
Not provided
Maximum Water Depth (Metres)
4.6 metres (building dock sill)
Dry-Dock Capability
Dock – 118 metres x 33.54 metres, (16.4 tonnes/m
2
uniformly distributed load)
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