Photos: Jumbo Installs Karish FPSO Mooring System While Breaking Its Deep-Water Record
On part of TechnipFMC, Jumbo Offshore effectively finished the initial stage of deal with Energean’s Karish gas area offshore Israel inOctober Jumbo’s range of job consisted of transportation and also setup of 14 suction heaps (component of a 14-point FPSO mooring system), a tie-in manifold, and also a 24-inch deepwater gas sales spool.
Jumbo mounted the parts at a deepness of 1,760 metres, damaging its very own deep-water setup document. Jumbo’s job is set up to recommence in 2021, with the hook-up and also setup of the Energean Power FPSO, the initial FPSO ever before to run in the East Mediterranean
Installing the mooring spread for the Energean Power FPSO, Jumbo mounted 13 suction heaps of 176 tonnes each and also one considering 235 tone. Both the deck design and also both 900-tonne cranes of Jumbo’s overseas building and construction vessel Fairplayer were reconfigured to allow each component of the setup. This entailed the Fairplayer’s deep-water winches being customized to enable setup job to 3,000 metres deep.
A multi-disciplinary procedure
Joost van der Wiel, Lead Project Engineer at Jumbo, stated that setup of the big suction stack was particularly difficult and also needed a particularly crafted technique in which the stack was initial removed to a deepness of 200 metres, where it was hung off a Dyneema pennant. “We then recovered the hook, reconfigured the crane, picked up the pile from the pennant and began the second lift down to 1,760 metres deep. That’s a record for us and I am very proud of the team that made this happen!”
The setup of the linkup manifold and also the 24-inch gas sales SSIV closing spindle show Jumbo’s setting as a full-service T&I specialist, proceedsJumbo Project Manager Wieteke Looijschelder “The gas sales spool is a flexible piece of equipment, so lifting and lowering it called for a dual lift with a complex rigging arrangement. This technical efficiency is a good example of how our DP2 vessels can handle both the transport and installation needs of a project with just one vessel.”
“The Karish contract was a multi-disciplinary operation and was a unique challenge for Jumbo,” includes Offshore Construction Manager Barry 10 Brinke, “And, just as with all project completions, its success was driven by a great team on board and ashore.”
Words from the customers
At the verdict of this stage of the job, TechnipFMC Project Manager David MacLennan stated: “Congratulations on the safe and successful completion of this work scope. It’s been a great team effort.”
Energean Subsea Delivery Manager Lenas Mylonas proceeded by including: “Thank you for your outstanding contribution to this campaign. The Jumbo team performed superbly and we are grateful.”
Zero injuries & & Covid safety and security
As constantly, Jumbo paid a great deal of interest to the topic of safety and security throughout the implementation of this agreement. “As well as implementing the highest standards possible, we aim to create an open and communicative atmosphere with respect to safety,” statesMs Looijschelder “It is this constructive safety culture that helped us complete the Karish project with zero injuries or incidents.”
Of training course, Covid -19 contributed in both the mobilization and also implementation stages of the job. Jumbo’s team, staff, and also subcontractors intended to be as adaptable as feasible provided the scenarios. Thanks to their initiatives, the outcome was a fairly smooth, however most importantly risk-free, mobilization, regardless of brand-new and also altering guidelines. Note that Jumbo’s Stay Well program likewise figured in in this, not just regarding to life-saving guidelines however likewise establishing a program for mind-saving guidelines– as Covid- anxiousness, functioning from residence, or past due crew-changes can tax workers and also companions. By constantly keeping an eye on the health of its workers, Jumbo intends to maintain the adverse results of the Covid pandemic to a minimum.
Reference: jumbomaritime.nl