ALE has been heavily involved in the EGTL Project, offloading, transporting and installing all items onsite over 100te with a wide range of equipment including an 80 metres high gantry; a 4,000te capacity tailing frame; 300te, 500te and 1,500te capacity cranes; and 110 SPMT axles.
From the engineering and planning stage in Houston to the installation of two 2,200te reactors, ALE personnel have been a constant presence on the EGTL site in the Niger Delta. This continuity of service contributed greatly to the smooth and minimally disruptive transition from planning to execution.
ALE was able to design an innovative gantry system that can be skidded from one position to another (as the concrete skidding foundations in the photograph show). This overcame a major challenge: the site was created by dredging and filling a swamp with sand so ground-bearing strength was a limitation, which meant the use of super-high capacity cranes was precluded. A traditional gantry system usually has to be dismantled before it can be relocated, which would have made the original requirement for the reactors to be installed within 3 weeks of each other extremely challenging.
