24 augustus 2010

Jumbo Offshore & Technip USA Complete Works in 2500M Waterdepth

Technip USA and its contractor Jumbo Offshore have completed the installation of 5 Free Standing Hybrid Risers (FSHR’s) for the Petrobras America Inc. Cascade & Chinook ultra-deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico. The 5 FSHR’s are the deepest risers of this type installed in the world to date. Watch the videos of the project on swzonline!

Transportation of the five buoyancy cans was handled by Jumbo’s Fairplayer. Installation, lead by Technip, was engineered and executed in smooth and successful collaboration. Technip’s construction vessels Deep Blue and Deep Pioneer, together with the Fairplayer, installed the buoyancy cans and risers in winter conditions and with zero HSE recordable.
 

Fairplayer Transports Buoyancy Cans

The Fairplayer, one of Jumbo’s two DP2 offshore Heavy Lift Vessels, loaded the buoyancy cans from Technip’s yard in Pori (Finland) and transported them to the Cascade and Chinook offshore location in the Gulf of Mexico (USA). There, she met up with Technip’s Deep Blue and Deep Pioneer to commence installation.
 

Wet Handshake

The installation started with the Deep Blue deploying the riser in its entirety. The Fairplayer then moved in for a wet handshake, lifting the 2,300 m riser with the fore crane and placing it in a hang-off structure for connection to the buoyancy can. The whole assembly was then overboarded and lowered safely through the splash zone. Jumbo Offshore broke its own record, lifting over 700 t load offshore.
 
After lowering the assembly to 200 m, Technip made the connection between the riser and its foundation in the seabed at 2,500 m water depth.
 
Watch the videos of the project here

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