Here are just some of the many projects that I have been involved with over the last few years.
Note: Due to the confidential nature of this work only general project details have been included here.
- North Field Expansion Project – Onshore Early Works, Qatar.
Onshore Early Works for the North Field Expansion Project. The expansion project includes the development of four new LNG trains and eight wellhead platforms, from which 80 new wells will be drilled. Eight offshore jack-up drilling rigs will be installed and four offshore 38in trunk lines with 28in diameter intra-field pipelines will be laid, along with ...
- FPSO Liza Unity, Guyana.
The Liza Unity FPSO will be designed to produce 220,000 barrels of oil per day with a storage capacity of 2 million barrels in comparison to the Liza Destiny FPSO with 120,000 barrels of oil per day with 1.6 million barrels storage capacity. It will have associated gas treatment capacity of 400 million cubic feet per ...
- Jazan Refinery & Marine Terminal, Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Aramco’s new Jazan Refinery will be a grassroots facility with an anticipated capacity of up to 400,000 barrels per day (BPD). The proposed facility will be located in Jazan, Saudi Arabia. The Jazan Refinery and Terminal project is expected to support the future development of Jazan Economic City. The additional refined products from the ...
- Shell Majnoon FCP Gas, Iraq.
The Majnoon field is one of the largest oil fields in the world, with an estimated 38 billion STOIIP (stock tank oil initially in place), according to the Iraqi Ministry of Oil. The northern part of Majnoon is located within the Hawizeeh marshes, a denominated RAMSAR area (wetlands of international importance). This RAMSAR area is ...
- Tees Valley 2 Renewable Energy Facility, UK.
The Tees Valley project is one of the most exciting and innovative energy projects in the world. Air Products is building two of the largest renewable energy facilities in the world using advanced plasma gasification energy-from-waste technology, with the potential to revolutionize the waste-to-energy sector. The Tees Valley plants will be the first of their ...
- The Greater Stella Area Development, UK.
The Greater Stella Area is located in the Central Graben area of the Central North Sea, on the UK Continental Shelf. It is an area surrounded by large producing fields and undeveloped discoveries, with major companies including TOTAL, Shell, ConocoPhillips, BP and Talisman, all operating infrastructure in the area. The development is centred on the ...
- FPSO Cidade De Marica, Brasil.
The FPSO Cidade De Marica is a conversion from a double hulled 308,491 dwt very large crude-oil carrier. The FPSO shall have an oil processing capacity of 150,000 Barrel per day, a gas treatment capacity of 6,000,000 standard m3/day, water injection capacity of 35,000 m3/day and storage capacity of 1.6 million Barrels. The FPSO Cidade ...
- BARZAN GAS PROJECT, QATAR.
The Barzan Gas Project will produce and process gas from Qatar’s North Field for use by power stations and industries in the country, ethane for the country’s petrochemicals industry and liquid hydrocarbons for sale into local and international markets. The offshore side of the project will include an upgrade on an existing platform and an additional ...
- ONGC B193 Platform, India.
ONGC intended to install the B-193-A well-cum-Process platform having a separate bridge connected Living Quarter platform along with HP and LP flare structures, 5 well platforms and intra field submarine lines located in the Heera-Panna-Bassien field, located 75 km offshore from Mumbai in a water depth of 70m. All the processing facilities i.e. fuel gas system, separation, ...
- Bien Dong 1 Project, Vietnam.
Bien Dong 1 Project involves the joint development of the Moc Tinh and Hai Thach gas fields situated in the Nam Con Son basin, offshore of southern Vietnam. The fields are located at a water depth of about 140m. Moc Tinh gas field is located in block 05.3, while the Hai Thach gas and condensate field ...
- Telok Gas Development Project, Malaysia.
The Telok gas development project was developed under a gas production sharing contract between ExxonMobil, as the operator, Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd (PCSB) and PETRONAS. ExxonMobil and PCSB each hold a 50 percent interest in the project. ExxonMobil and PCSB advanced the development of the field under the terms of the gas production sharing contract with ...
- Digicel Fiji, Satellite Earth Station, Fiji.
Digicel expands its mobile telephone operations into Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Vanuatu. As part of this expansion Digicel builds a satellite earth station in Fiji, equipped with a new 9m motorized antenna, to provide internet connectivity to its mobile customers there.
- FPSO Smart 1, Singapore.
The FPSO Smart 1 built in the Jurong Shipyards in Singapore, is based upon a converted oil tanker and is built to a flexible modular design that allows functions to be added offshore, enabling AKFP to start building an FPSO before it has secured a lease contract. The FPSO Smart 1 has been chartered by Reliance ...
- Drilling Rig, Lone Star, Abu Dhabi.
The TDS2000 semi-submersible drilling rig built in Port Zayed, Abu Dhabi, is designed with drilling equipment suitable for well work over (completion and intervention), exploration drilling as well as development drilling. It embodies the collective past experience of new builds and conversions of semi-submersible units, which results in a rig, which is optimized for offshore operations, ...
- FPSO Stybarrow Venture MV16
The FPSO Stybarrow Vebture MV16 is located in the Exmouth Sub-basin, approximately 65 kilometers from Exmouth, off the northwest Australian coast. The project included the provision of an FPSO capable of processing 100,000 barrels of liquids per day and a storage capacity in the order of 900,000 barrels. The FPSO is installed in approximately 825 meters ...
- BP Tangguh LNG Development, Indonesia.
The Project involves the tapping of six fields to extract combined proven reserves of around 14.4 trillion cubic feet of clean gas. Two normally unmanned offshore production platforms located in Bintuni Bay will collect gas from the reservoir, then send it through sub-sea pipelines to an LNG processing facility on the south shore. From here, ...
- FPSO Berge Enterprise, Singapore.
The FPSO Berge Enterprise, later renamed Yuum K’ak’ Naab, was converted at the Sembawang Shipyard in Singapore by Sembcorp Marine under an $88m contract. The 360,700dwt FPSO is 340m long, 65m wide and 31.5m tall. Originally built by Mitsui, the conversion project encompassed the inclusion of an internal disconnectable submerged turret system provided by APL. This ...
- North Rankin A, Australia.
The North Rankin redevelopment is the largest offshore project yet undertaken in the North West Shelf offshore area, with significant structural upgrades required to the North Rankin ‘A’ gas platform, in readiness for the construction of a completely new platform known as the North Rankin ‘B’. Once complete, two bridges, both approximately 110m long would ...
- Safe Caledonia, UK.
The Safe Caledonia is a Flotel with a maximum of 454 beds, 9 offices and 78 workstations, a high level of accommodation and a fully articulated, automated gangway. The Safe Caledonia has DP 2 station keeping abilities and can also deploy a 10-point wire mooring pattern, managed by a POSMOOR thruster assisted online mooring system. She is ...
- Langeled pipeline, UK.
The Langeled pipeline (originally known as Britpipe) is an underwater pipeline transporting Norwegian natural gas to the United Kingdom. Before the completion of the Nord Stream pipeline, it was the longest subsea pipeline in the world. The pipeline runs 1,166 kilometres (725 mi) through the North Sea from the Nyhamna terminal in Norway via the Sleipner ...
- SFPA Norna, UK.
The Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency (SFPA) was an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government. The SFPA is responsible for both deterring illegal fishing in Scottish waters, as well as monitoring the compliance of the fisheries industry in Scotland with the relevant Scottish and European Union laws on fisheries. The Agency has 18 Fishery Offices, a ...
- Petrobas FPSO P54, Singapore.
The conversion of FPSO P-54, one of the world’s largest FPSOs, was carried out in two phases – the FPSO’s hull was converted by Jurong Shipyard in Singapore, while the vessel’s topside modules were fabricated, installed, integrated and commissioned in Brazil’s Mauá Jurong yard. The FPSO P-54 is set to play a key role in Brazil’s goal of achieving ...
- MV Edda Fjord, USA.
The M/V Edda Fjord, an oil services supply vessel of Østensjø Group, undergoing conversion to provide accommodation services for a total of 450 people, in late 2005, in the Gulf of Mexico. The converted MV Edda Fjord was used to support repair work on BP’s Thunder Horse installation, which had been damaged during Hurricane Dennis. ...
- FPSO P53, Singapore.
The FPSO P53 was converted, in the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore, from the Portuguese vessel Setebello. The P53 has a length of 346m and can accommodation up to 240 personnel. The FPSO is equipped with a large turret system (a tower that receives the flexible production and injection lines, the oil pipeline and gas pipeline and ...
- Drill Rig, Noble Julia Roberts, UK.
A jack-up rig or a self-elevating unit is a type of mobile platform that consists of a buoyant hull fitted with a number of movable legs, capable of raising its hull over the surface of the sea. The buoyant hull enables transportation of the unit and all attached machinery to a desired location. Once on ...
- South Hook LNG Terminal, UK.
The South Hook LNG Terminal, a part of the Qatargas 2 integrated Value Chain, is one of the largest Liquefied Natural Gas re-gasification terminals in Europe. The South Hook LNG re-gasification Terminal is where the LNG is converted from a liquid back to a gas and is then delivered to the UK’s homes and businesses via ...
- Buipe-Bolgatanga, B2P3 Pipeline, Ghana.
The Buipe-Bolgatanga petroleum pipeline project, dubbed ‘B2P3’ covers a distance of about 275 kilometres from Buipe in the Northern region to Blgatanga in the Upper East region of Ghana. The Bulk Oil Supply and Transport (BOST) Company of the Ministry of Energy is executing the project, which is being financed by the Korean government with 38-point-two million ...
- Dalia FPSO, Angola.
The Dalia FPSO (Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading vessel), shall be built in Goeje, South Korea by Samsung Shipbuilding & Heavy Industries. The FPSO shall have hull dimensions of 300m in length, 60m in breadth and 32m of height. On the hull a 29,400t of topsides shall be constructed. The topsides shall have two processing trains to separate ...
- FPSO Bonga, Nigeria.
The giant Bonga floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is in use at Shell’s Bonga oilfield (discovered in 1993 and with a life of 20 years), which lies 120km off the coast of the Niger Delta, covering an area of 60km². The vessel, which became operational in 2004, is permanently installed in water depths ...
- FPSO Marlim Sul, Singapore.
The FPSO Marlim Sul was a conversion from a very large crude carrier. The conversion was carried out in the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore. FPSO Marlim Sul is able to process 100,000 bpd of crude oil production and 2.3 million Sm³/d of gas compression. The produced gas is exported through Campos Basin pipelines. The process plant includes ...
- Britannia, UK.
The Britannia field, discovered in the mid 1970s, is situated 210km (130 miles) north-east of Aberdeen and covers approximately 112km² (70 square miles). Britannia’s reserves are being developed through a single drilling, production and accommodation platform. The platform comprises an eight-legged tubular-framed substructure which supports the topsides, risers and caissons, and is located over the ten-slot well ...
- Ra’s Lanuf Refinery, Libya.
Ra’s Lanuf is a topping and reforming oil refinery. It became operational in 1984 and produces an estimated 220,000 bbl/d (35,000 m3/d). It is a simple hydroskimming refinery, but its products meet market specifications due to high quality crude oil. Rasco produces fuel oil, gas oil, LPG, naphtha and kerosene. The refinery also produces petrochemicals, ...
- Murzuq Basin, Libya.
The NC-174 Block, is located in the southwestern Libyan desert about 465 miles (800 km) south of Tripoli, Libya. LASMO had entered Libya in 1990 with the Korean consortium named PEDCO and carried out the initial exploration programme of geological fieldwork, 2500 km of seismic acquisition and the drilling of four wildcat wells that led to ...