Largest oil rig ship
The Biggest Ship on Earth Picking Up an Oil Rig and Delivering it to Shore The super heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit picking up offshore topsides like matchboxes. The Pioneering Spirit ship is the world’s largest vessel by gross tonnage (403,342 GT). Dockwise Vanguard is the largest vessel of her type ever built, and is able to carry cargoes up to 110,000 tonnes. Dockwise Vanguard was designed to move offshore oil and gas facilities, but can also carry other ships and act as an offshore dry dock facility. The world’s most advanced ultra-deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig has been delivered by China’s Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore shipyard. The DP3 rig Bluewhale 1 has an operating depth of up to 12,000 feet (3,658 meters) and a drilling depth to 50,000 feet (15,240 meters),