BMT, MSI Land Joint FSRU Terminal Project Contract Offshore Greece
BMT Group Ltd. and Metocean Services International (MSI) have been jointly awarded a contract by Gastrade, the companies said Jan. 9. The contract will allow the companies to deploy an environmental monitoring system and develop metocean criteria to be used for the design of an offshore moored floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) and the subsea pipeline to shore.
The Alexandroupolis FSRU will be located offshore Greece in the northern Aegean Sea in about 40 m (131 ft) water depth and will connect to shore via a 24-km (14-mile) subsea pipeline.
The FSRU is part of the Alexandroupolis Independent Natural Gas System, which aims to create a new natural gas gateway to central and southeastern Europe.
MSI will provide a site-specific measurement program to record metocean parameters including waves, currents, water levels and temperature offshore as well as meteorological parameters onshore for 12 months.
BMT will deliver the metocean criteria study to support the engineering design phase and will use its in-house, long-term wave hindcast and hydrodynamic modeling software TUFLOW-FV to simulate local sea states and hydrodynamic conditions. TUFLOW-FV is a 2-D/3-D finite volume numerical model that simulates hydrodynamic, sediment transport and water quality processes.
North Sea’s First FPSO Unit Heads To Brazil
Petrojarl I, the North Sea’s first FPSO vessel, is on its way to Brazil’s Atlanta Field after work in Aibel’s Haugesund, Norway shipyard.
Teekay’s TenTech 685-design vessel will be stationed 185 km (115 miles) offshore in depths of 1,535 m (5,003 ft), the deepest in which Petrojarl I has operated. The post-salt Atlanta Field, located in the Santos Basin, marks the 14th field in which the FPSO vessel has operated. It will begin a five-year charter contract in first-quarter 2018 with a consortium led by Queiroz Galvão Exploração e Produção SA.
The FPSO vessel required 450,000 engineering hours from Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam to complete the redeployment overhaul. Most of the vessel’s process equipment had to be removed and replaced with new and additional equipment to handle heavy crude.
Petrojarl I will operate as an early production system in the heavy-crude field, which has estimated reserves of 190 MMboe and an expected production life of about 15 years. The FPSO vessel will undergo field installation and testing before it begins a five-year charter contract.
Maersk Drilling Wins Contract Offshore Ghana
Tullow Ghana Ltd. has awarded Maersk Drilling a four-year contract for the Maersk Venturer deepwater drillship, according to a news release.
Signed in December 2017, the contract is expected to start in February 2018 and cover development drilling on the Jubilee and TEN fields offshore Ghana. The contract is Maersk’s first with Tullow Ghana.
Maersk said on Jan. 2 that the drillship is in transit for the job offshore Ghana.
Maersk Rigworld Ghana, Maersk Drilling’s joint venture with Rigworld International Services, will provide local services for the operation, the release stated.
Mitsui, Others Join MODEC-led FPSO Charter Project Offshore Brazil
Mitsui & Co. Ltd., Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. (MOL), Marubeni Corp. and Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. (MES) have agreed to invest in a long-term charter business promoted by MODEC Inc. to provide an FPSO unit for use in the Sepia area offshore Brazil, a news release stated.
The five companies entered related agreements on Jan. 9.
Based on these agreements, Mitsui, MOL, Marubeni and MES will invest in Sepia MV30 BV, a Dutch company established by MODEC, and the companies will proceed with the project jointly.
MV30 has entered a long-term charter agreement to deploy the FPSO unit with Petrobras.
The FPSO unit will be chartered for 21 years under the agreement.
BW Offshore In Polvo Win Extension
BW Offshore has reached an agreement with Brazil’s Petrorio to extend the contract for the Polvo FPSO vessel for one year.
The contract has been extended to third-quarter 2019 from third-quarter 2018, with options to extend to third-quarter 2022.
The vessel is being used at the Polvo Field, where it produces about 8,000 bbl/d in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil, according to Petrorio. The Polvo FPSO has a fluid processing capacity of an average 100,000 bbl/d and storage capacity of up to 1 MMbbl.
—Staff Reports
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