Hurricane Lines Up Floater For Lancaster Field

Hurricane has signed a heads of terms with Bluewater Energy Services (BES) for the use of the Aoka Mizu FPSO vessel on the company’s Lancaster Field, West of Shetland, according to a news release.

Hurricane intends to use the Aoka Mizu for the early production system phase of development and will have the right to extend the contract for up to 10 years. Under the agreement, BES has granted Hurricane an exclusive right to enter fully termed agreements until November 2017. The parties intend to enter fully termed agreements before Hurricane’s expected mid-2017 sanction date.

The heads of terms sets the scope of work as well as the commercial terms between BES and Hurricane, both for the cost and terms of the upgrade and life extension work and the subsequent charter rates during the expected life of the contract, the release said.

In addition, Hurricane and BES have begun a second phase FEED study, which is expected to complete in early second-quarter 2017.

Aibel Taps Veolia For Water System Module For Woodside FPSO

Veolia, through its subsidiary VWS Westgarth, has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract by Aibel Singapore on behalf of Woodside Petroleum Ltd. to supply customized waterflood water treatment system module for the Ngujima-Yin FPSO vessel, according to a news release.

The award is for the design, equipment procurement and supply, and construction as a single-lift integrated process module incorporating coarse filtration, ultrafiltration pretreatment and sulphate removal membrane process, vacuum de-aeration, dual fuel turbine-driven water injection pump, electrical switchgear and transformers, and a plant control room. The system water injection capacity is 12,720 cu. m/d (449,202.5 cf/d), with a turndown capacity to 8,745 cu. m/d (308,827 cf/d).

The company said the heart of the system is the specialized SRP membrane process, which is designed to remove sulphates and other divalent hardness ions from injection water used in EOR waterflood operations. The removal of these ions reduces the tendency of barium sulphate and strontium sulphate scale to form in the reservoir and flowlines, plus prevents well souring by controlling sulphate reducing bacteria.

This is the first award that Aibel Singapore and Woodside have awarded Veolia, and it marks the first use of sulphate removal in Australia, Veolia said in the release.

The FPSO vessel will operate in Woodside’s Greater Enfield Area Development fields, offshore northwest Australia.

—Staff Reports

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