Goliat FPSO Prepares for 60-Day Voyage Aboard the Dockwise Vanguard [IMAGES]

The Goliat FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) will quickly depart Hyundai Heavy Industries and head southbound alongside the coast of japanese Asia aboard the kind 0 heavy carry vessel Dockwise Vanguard. The vessel will probably be enroute to the northern tip of Norway, by way of the Cape of Good Hope, a visit that’s anticipated to take about two months.

ENI Norge, the operator of the vessel, notes this Sevan Marine-designed manufacturing facility will probably be put in on the Goliat discipline, the world’s northernmost offshore oil discipline and the primary oil discipline to come back into manufacturing within the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea.

Following arrival in Hammerfest in mid-April, the Goliat FPSO will probably be towed out to the sphere the place tie-in operations and preparations for manufacturing will happen in the course of the summer time.

The platform will probably be provided with electrical energy from the mainland utilizing the longest submarine cable of its sort on the earth. The discipline is deliberate to come back onstream in the midst of this yr.

Facts in regards to the Goliat FPSO:

107 meters in diameter (at course of deck stage)
Production capability: 100,000 barrels of oil per day
Storage capability: 1 million barrels
Cabin capability: 120 individuals
Lifeboat capability: 240 individuals
No. of anchor strains: 14
No. of wells: 22 (11 producers, 9 water injectors and a couple of fuel injectors)

All photographs courtesy ENI Norge