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The worlds largest vessel, Solitaire, is 300 meters long and about 40 meters wide. This particular vessel is involved in the construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
All pipes for future gas pipeline are subject to a special treatment. From the inside, they are treated with an antifriction coating which is reducing resistance during gas transmission. Externally, pipes are treated with an anticorrosion coating and then with a negative buoyancy concrete coating.
Floating houses
Pipes are laid on the seabed by special pipelaying vessels. Pipelaying vessels are huge floating platforms which can accommodate several hundreds of people at a time. As a rule, several vessels participate in the process of pipe laying. Special barges continuously supply pipes to a pipelaying vessel, which is preceded by a vessel monitoring the seabed. The supplied pipes are unloaded on storage sites located directly on the deck of the pipelaying vessel. They should have a stock of pipes for 12 hours of work.