Six cutter suction dredgers at work on ADNOC project

DEME in Belgium says it currently has a total of six cutter suction dredgers working together in Abu Dhabi on the Ruwais site for Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC).

The project will see the reclamation of 1,000 hectares of land for the construction of the world’s biggest refinery.

A DEME spokesperson said, ‘There have never been so many people and cutter kilowatts together on one DEME site.’ The company has 1,050 people on site along with the cutter suction dredgers D’Artagnan, Al Mahaar, Carolina, Kaveri, Kallo, and Kalis II, a total of 70,500kW.

Together, the cutter suction dredgers are producing a massive 1,500,000m3 per week.