Installation of 8 – No. 84” FPSO mooring piles for the OMV Maari Project completed in record time
- Rental of 96FF
- Rental of 2 – No. 84” Pile Upending Tools
- Installation of 8 No. 84” FPSO Mooring Piles
- Installation of 2 – No. 84” Mid-water Arch Piles
- Acergy Singapore Pte Ltd
- Offshore New Zealand
- Fabrication of new frame in Singapore
- Mobilisation from / transport to New Zealand
IHC Sea Steel’s new larger capacity 96” FAST FRAME (96FF) has, in record time, completed the installation of 8-No. 84” diameter FPSO mooring piles on the OMV Maari Project, offshore New Zealand.
During the engineering phase, 2-No. 84” diameter mid-water arch piles were added to the workscope and these were installed at the same time. The Frame weighs 125 Tonnes.
2-No. standard 84” pile upending tools were hired to efficiently upend and deploy the piles to the 96FF, the Frame accurately orientated the heading of the piles well within the required tolerances.
- Rental of 84FF
- Rental of 2 – No. 24” Pile Upending Tools
- Installation of 9 – No. 84” FPSO Mooring Piles
- Saipem UK (Sonsub Division) Ltd
- Transport from Dundee to Invergordon
- Saipem 7000
IHC Sea Steel are pleased to announce the successful completion of the 9- No, 84″ diameter piles for the Ettrick project on behalf of Nexen. The work was undertaken by Saipem using vessel “Edda Fjord” and the 125 Tonne 84″ FAST FRAME with extensions. The 84FF and 50m long piles were deployed to seabed by the “Saipem 7000″ earlier. By using this strategy a nominal sized low cost vessel was used to drive the piles on what was a particularly large mooring system. Allowing for some downtime due to weather the piles were effectively driven at more than one a day without incident.
- Rental of 84FF
- Rental of 84FF Mudmat extensions
- Installation 12 – No. 84” FPSO Mooring Piles
- Aker Marine Contractors
- Transport fro Dundee to Mexico
- Mobilisation from Dos Bocas, Mexico
During January and February 2007, the 84” FAST FRAME fitted with 1m wide mudmat extensions, was used for the precision installation of 12-No. 140 tonne FPSO mooring piles for the PEMEX project in MEXICO, water depth 98m. The piles were driven on behalf of Aker Marine Contractors, through the 84FFX using a Menck MHU500. The heading and verticality was achieved within 0.5 deg. of the designed. The intermediate hard sand layers made the tasks “very interesting and challenging to say the least”.
72” Slotted Frame was dispatched to the Statoil Tyrihans Project for the installation of two 60”diameter pipeline initiation piles.