Chela Twins installed onboard Velesto Energy Berhad NAGA 6 jackup

NOV has delivered the first GustoMSC Chela Twins cranes to Velesto Energy Berhad.

Chela Twins installed onboard Velesto Energy Berhad NAGA 6 jackup
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The cost-effective cranes were installed and commissioned onboard the NAGA 6, a GustoMSC CJ46 jack-up drilling rig design, at the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore.

Spyros Magripis, Project Manager, GustoMSC, said:

"The entire engineering and construction project was completed within just 8 months. After receiving the order in September 2021, the team immediately put all the needed effort. The fabrication was completed in April and the first-ever Chela Twins were qualified as an accepted product. The commissioning of the Chela Twins in early August this year is an impressive achievement and marks a great milestone."

Velesto Energy Berhad ordered the two Chela Twins cranes for its NAGA 6 jack-up drilling rig in November 2021. The Chela Twins are two independently operated cranes designed to work in pairs on a cantilever to create the best combination of reachability, handshake capabilities, and construction simplicity.

Featuring a telescopic crane boom, Chela Twins are a cost-competitive alternative for the Chela Single crane. In 2019, the first Chela crane was delivered to Maersk Drilling and installed onboard the Maersk Invincible, an ultra-harsh environment GustoMSC CJ70 jack-up drilling rig design. It has proven its claims while operating at the Valhall field in the Norwegian North Sea for Aker BP.