Roll Group Completes at Elba Island LNG

Laxman Pai
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Heavy lift specialist Roll Group said it has completed its activities on the expansion of the LNG plant at the Elba Island project in Savannah, Georgia.

"The activities on Elba Island have come to an end for Roll-Lift USA. Mid-January the last equipment was removed, after working more than two years with an extensive fleet of equipment and a large team on the expansion of the LNG plant at the Elba Island Project located in Savannah, Georgia," said a press release.

The first challenge to overcome was the low weight limit and deteriorating condition of the only access bridge on to the island. This posed a huge problem for the delivery of the 9,300 poles and 71 process/pipe rack modules. The solution was to barge the modules from the offsite fabrication facility located 10 miles away along the Savannah River to the project site.

68 SPMTs and 72 lines of axle trailers were used to roll the modules on to the 25 barges at the fabrication yard and used again to roll off at the project site. Brent Brown, Transport Supervisor, looks back: “The barges were a challenge, but we managed without delay. It gave us a lot of praise from the clients and the other contractors who were working on Elba Island.’’

Another issue with the delivery of the cargo were the poor ground conditions at the project roll off location. Roll-Lift designed, in house, the hefty 85ft RoRo ramps used to bridge over the poor ground and still maintain the capacity required to handle the loads imposed. Crane Supervisor Gary Lyons also had to deal with the ground conditions.
 
During peak time on the project, 35 Roll-Lift employees were deployed on Elba Island. “That’s almost 40 percent of the Roll-Lift USA staff,’’ says Robert Jackson.

Categories: LNG Marine Equipment Production Installation

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