Final diver less subsea mooring connection finished at Neptune
2009.08.25 -
Projects
The Neptune DWPP Installation project team has installed 16 suction anchors, 16 chain lengths, two STL Buoys with wires and connected the wires to the chain on the seabed without intervention of divers.
Nine connections have been made up with the APL Subsea Mooring connector and seven connections have been made with H-shackles. This campaign is the first job where the APL Mooring connector has been used and everything has gone well. All the planning, engineering and efforts put into the project prior to going offshore has made this a great success.
The installation vessel, Normand Clipper, is back at our mobilization base in Saint John, NB setting up for the final part of the job where we are going to install risers and umbilical’s between the STL Buoys and the Pipe Line End Manifolds. This job is also going to be performed without intervention of divers.
Photo://APL
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The Piranema field, 25 km off the coast of Sergipe, started producing oil this Wednesday (10/10), in deep Northeastern Brazil waters. With operations going online in this field, Petrobras is taking another step towards maintaining Brazil’s oil self-sufficiency. The Piranema oil, of excellent quality, at 44º API, is the lightest oil produced in deep waters in Brazil.
The first tanker with a cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Snøhvit field left port at Melkøya near Hammerfest, northern Norway
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced today that its subsidiary, Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Limited, has started production from the Marimba North project, designed to develop 80 million barrels of oil in approximately 3,900 feet (1,300 meters) of water more than 90 miles (145 kilometers) off the coast of Angola.
