News
echnip has landed an en- gineering, procurement, construction and commis- sioning (EPIC) contract for the second phase of the Gi- rassol Resources Initiatives (GirRI) development project from Total.
The field is located 210km
offshore Angola, in a water depth of 1,300m. The contract covers the
project management, engi- neering, fabrication and in- stallation of 21km of umbilicals, 13km of intercon- necting power cable between the Dalia and the Girassol floating production storage and offloading units (FPSO), both delivered by Technip, the recovery and disposal of
Technip rides again on Girassol T
four rigid spools and the the installation of eight new flex- ible spools. Various steel structures will be fabricated at the An- goflex spoolbase in Dande, Angola.
The flexible spools will be fabricated at Technip’s man- ufacturing plant in Le Trait, France.
The offshore campaign is scheduled for the end of 2014, with the main installa-
Andrew process unit installed T
he new 700t processing unit for the Kinnoull and
Andrew Lower Cretaceous reservoirs, built by Heerema in Hartlepool, England, has been successfully installed on to BP’s Andrew platform in the UK North Sea.
The Kinnoull field is one of
three reservoirs being devel- oped as part of the rejuvena- tion of the Andrew area. The reservoir will be con- nected to BP’s Andrew plat- form and will enable production there to be ex- tended by a further decade. Trevor Garlick, regional
president for BP’s North Sea business, said: “The Kinnoull project is significant to the North Sea business, and wider BP, and is a clear ex-
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ample of the company’s strat- egy in action. Advances in our understanding of the reservoir structure, deploy-
The Andrew process unit at the Heerema yard in Hartlepool
Technip’s Apache II pipelay vessel
tion vessel being from Tech- nip’s fleet. Jean-Marc Aubry, Senior
vice president of Technip Re- gion A, said: “This contract is a significant milestone as it demonstrates Technip’s capa- bilities to execute a subsea project from Luanda, Angola. It is thus completely in line with Technip and its part- ners’ objectives to maximise the Angolan national con- tent.”
ment of the very latest in UK subsea engineering skills and a major upgrade of the An- drew platform are key suc- cess factors of this development.” In order to access the new
reservoir, the project has in- stalled a new subsea system and caisson onto the Andrew platform. Four subsea pipeline bundles with a total length of 28 km - the longest bundle sys- tem in the world - will carry the fluids to the Andrew plat- form for processing and on- ward export. Production from Kinnoull
is forecast to peak at 45,000 b/d and be exported via the existing Forties pipeline system to Kin- neil and the CATS pipeline sys- tem to Teesside.
November/December 2012 Offshore Technology
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