1 – The Largest Offshore Rig

The largest offshore installation of its kind in the world, the Production-Drilling-Quarters platform, is a semi-submersible floating structure with a displacement of 130 kilotons. The topside is the size of 3 football fields.

It is capable of treating and exporting ¼ million barrels of oil per day. It has twin state-of-the-art drilling derricks 130m high capable of going through 6km of mud, rock and salt topped by 1.9km of ocean at pressures of over 1200 bar and temperatures of 135 degrees Celsius. It is valued in excess of $1 billion.

The installed power generation equipment totals 100 megawatts – enough to supply a large town of about 80,000 homes, and is the biggest offshore power plant in the world. It took 15 million man-hours for design and fabrication.

The heavy lift device onboard is able to lift up to 12 kilotons at an outreach of 60m and now holds the top spot in the world rankings for onshore heavy lift cranes. The rig is fully-automated and all operations can be controlled by two people in the control cabin.

2 – The Whopping Titan

Look out Tonka. Monster trucks are no match for this 260 ton Titan (610 tons when fully loaded to its 350 capacity). It is made in Canada out of real Canadian steel. It holds the world record for the largest tandem axle, rear dumping hauler. It measures 22.5’ tall, almost 66’ long, and nearly 25’ wide (56’ tall with the bed up).

Each of its ten nearly 12’ diameter tires weigh 4 tons. It’s driven by a 16 cylinder 3300 horsepower locomotive engine. 4 traction motors located on its rear wheels require a generator (strong enough to power 250 homes) to assist the engine.

One might shudder to think about how much it would cost to fill its 800 gallon fuel tank at today’s prices or even the oil change needing 278 gallons! Relocation of this heavy equipment takes 8 flat-bed rail cars.

3 – Move Some Earth!

The biggest earth mover on the planet is brought to us by the Decepticons from the Transformers cartoon, though a German company claims it. With the dimensions 311’ x 705’ it’s taller than the length of a football field and more than twice in length.

Weighing in at over 45,500 tons, she is heavy but lighter than the Titanic. She cost $100 million U.S. dollars to build and her design took 5 years to complete and another 5 years to assemble.

A crew of 5 is needed for operation. Her bucket wheel has a diameter of more than 70’, with each of her 20 buckets which a 6’ man could stand up straight in) holds more than 530 cubic feet of material.

Rolling around using her dozen 12’ wide, 8’ high, and 46’ long crawlers (with 4 in back and 8 up front) she isn’t winning the Indy500 with a top speed of 1 mile per 3 hours! But, with the ability to remove more than 76,455 cubic meters per day, she can get a job done faster than her competition.

Whether you need Automobile Transportation, Heavy Equipment Transportation, or Motorcycle Transportation, National Transport can help you!