Netherlands contractor Heerema has acquired the contract to decommission the riser turret mooring (RTM) of the Nganhurra floating manufacturing, storage and offloading vessel that had been deployed on Woodside Vitality’s Enfield enviornment offshore Western Australia.
Heerema’s workscope entails the constructed-in engineering, preparation, removal and transportation of the Nganhurra RTM.
The structure will almost definitely be a ways from the Enfield enviornment, positioned approximately 52 kilometres northwest of Exmouth in WA, by lifting it in a single share onto a barge and transporting the RTM to Henderson or but one more honest Australian port for dismantling, and recycling or reuse.
The Nganhurra FPSO is a 270-metre-lengthy, double-hulled, custom-constructed floater constructed in 2006 by South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries. It used to be stationed on the Enfield oilfield from June 2006 till wearisome 2018 when the offshore enviornment used to be shut in.
The floater is designed to fabricate a maximum of 100,000 barrels per day of oil and can store about 900,000 barrels of oil.
Heerema said it could well perhaps perhaps seemingly map on its bigger than 30-year abilities of decommissioning offshore infrastructure and its notice file of “complex lifting operations” to form sure that the safe and environmentally sound recovery of the RTM.
“We are proud to be Woodside Vitality’s contractor of option for casting off the Nganhurra RTM. This contract represents our first decommissioning venture in Australia and even supposing Heerema has a lengthy historical past of safely and sustainably casting off offshore structures from the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico, we are very angry to continue our guilty decommissioning operations in Australian waters,” said Jeroen van Oosten, Heerema’s chief industrial officer.
“Heerema is taking a glimpse forward to taking an energetic feature in Australia’s decommissioning ambitions.
“The removal and subsequent reuse or recycling of offshore infrastructure is an fundamental last step within the lifecycle of oil and gasoline infrastructure and aligns with our firm values of accountability, sustainability and contributing to a spherical society.”
The worth of Heerema’s contract used to be no longer divulged.
Shut-in asset Woodside earlier this year awarded DOF Subsea a serious decommissioning workscope for its shut-in Enfield asset.
The contract, which contains venture administration, engineering, fabrication and decommissioning products and companies, is anticipated to be performed within the third and fourth quarters the usage of the contractor’s multi-motive vessel Skandi Hercules.
DOF Subsea Australia will get larger 18 subsea christmas trees, 18 flowbases and associated spool sections, one wellhead severance and as a lot as 18 non permanent data bases from the Enfield enviornment.
Woodside in January submitted a original environmental map to Australia’s offshore regulator — the Nationwide Offshore Petroleum Safety & Environmental Administration Authority (Nopsema) — linked to extra decommissioning work at Enfield on Block WA-28-L.