Tideland Signal and its agents PC Jansen have upgraded a package of aids to navigation that will be used by Seaway Heavy Lifting’s HLV Stanislav Yudin to install a new platform for GDF SUEZ E&P Nederland BV in the Dutch sector of the North Sea.
The revised package consists of a Tideland ML-300 MaxLumina lantern, fog detector, AB-560 fog signal and a large number of batteries all mounted in a crane-liftable frame, which can be installed on the new jacket to act as a temporary warning system, until the topside structure has been installed. It has been used by SHL in numerous locations around the globe for approximately ten years but needed routine maintenance and updating to meet Dutch standards.
The equipment was cleaned, rewired where necessary and some new components fitted, including a Sentry Fog Detector, which enables the fog signal to be switched on whenever visibility falls below 3,700m (2Nm). All the batteries were changed and there are now three strings of ten which power all three aids to navigation.