PRODUCTION • PROCESSING • HANDLING
Tyco QHSE practices helped achieve two million man-hours without a time loss incident FLOATING AN IDEA
Simon Rooks explains the level of cooperation and the technical design that have gone into building a huge new conceptual FPSO
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he cylindrical designed floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel being built by the COSCO QiDong shipyard in China will carry a package including four chemical injection skids, one methanol injection skid and also a methanol distribution cabinet, manufactured in the Tyco facility in Norwich, UK. Te project value to Tyco is in excess of £6 million. Te advanced, bespoke equipment will
be pivotal to maintaining the economic flow of oil from the Harris and Barra fields, which have a sea depth of 165m and a reservoir depth of 6,000ft.Te Western Isles Project is located 165 miles east of the Shetland Isles and is being developed by a partnership between Dana Petroleum and Cieco in a US$1.6 billion investment.
Te field is predicted to yield a peak flow of 40,000 barrels a day with a life of
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some 15 years. Tis output, in turn, will play a key role in meeting the UK’s future energy needs. Government permission was granted in December 2012 while first oil was extracted on April 24,,
2015,
following drilling of the wells by the Ocean Nomad semi-submersible rig. When drilling is complete there will be at least five oil and four water injection wells, all tied back to the FPSO, and it is the complexities of this extraction strategy that have determined much of the design, development and assembly work carried out by Tyco, along with its supply chain partners both within and outside the UK. Tyco liaised with COSCO and Dana Petroleum throughout the tender and design process, generating 3D CAD drawings and specifications for further evolution. Tese are the largest such skids
Tyco has so far produced. Part of the manufacturing had to be completed
The Western Isles Development Project (WIDP) consists of two discovered oil fields, Harris and Barra. The development concept features five production wells and four water injection wells as well as two eight-slot subsea production manifolds and associated flowlines
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