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Second world's largest crane working on the platform of Castor Project.

Valencia, 17 September .- The second largest maritime crane in the world has incorporated the work of installation of the shelf Castor Project, which has begun to assemble off the coast of Vinaros (Castellon) on Monday.

With a length of 198 meters and a beam of 87, the crane, owned by the Italian company Saipem, is capable of lifting up, mortal gold, to 14,000 tons, reported the company sources.

The Castor Project is the creation of an undersea natural gas storage building an old oil well at 1,750 meters below sea level, to ensure future delivery to the Spanish gas system.

The "Saipem 7000" is the second largest maritime crane in the world and is in Vinaros since last Sunday, to where, fallen earth chips, it is transported from Rotterdam, the "topside" platform wells, built in Texas.

This is one of the two structures that make up the platform, together with "jacket", built in Cadiz, and that the crane must be installed on the seabed, coinciding with the wellhead and built.

After placing this part in its final position, the same crane placed the pins to attach the, aika gold, platform to the seabed and then hoisted the "topside" and join the "jacket."

The Castor Project offshore platform has begun to settle at 22 kilometers from Vinaros, after receiving authorization from the Ministry of Industry last June.

The concessionaire of the infrastructure, Escal UGS maintains the spring of 2012 as the date for the entry into service of the gas tank, a project has a budget of more than 1.3 million euros financed by nineteen European banks.

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