The 22,000-tonne topside for the exploration system was raised right into setting in one solitary lift on the Johan Sverdrup area over the weekend break making use of the design wonder Pioneering Spirit

The installment notes the very first time the record-setting hefty lift vessel has actually been utilized for single-lift topside installment.

Last Thursday, May 31, the topside for the Johan Sverdrup exploration system cruised from the Aibel backyard in Haugesund to Bømlafjorden atStord There, the steel framework was moved from the barge to Pioneering Spirit, the globe’s greatest heavy-lift vessel, prior to making the eleven-hour trip to the Johan Sverdrup area.

After first prep work, the installment took just 3 hrs. “This makes it likely the fastest ever installation of a large, fully completed topside,” claimed Equinor, the Norwegian power firm previously called Statoil, driver of the Johan Sverdrup area.

The installment of the exploration system notes the secondly of 4 systems in the initial growth stage of Johan Sverdrup.

“This is an important milestone in the Johan Sverdrup installation campaign. Two of the four Johan Sverdrup platforms are now in place. The power cables to the field were rolled out last week, and so far, the installation of Norway’s biggest oil pipeline has gone very well, so this is definitely moving in the right direction,” claims Trond Bokn, elderly vice head of state for Johan Sverdrup at Equinor.

“At the same time, much work remains, and we must maintain extra focus on safety and quality in the execution phase. But we can breathe a bit more easily now that the drilling platform is installed – this is the first ever such operation in the world,” Bokn includes.

St åle Hanssen, job supervisor for Johan Sverdrup coats, installment and also appointing, defines the innovation making it possible for single-lift installment of large systems as a video game changer for the sector.

Up previously, no crane vessels have actually had the ability to raise greater than 12,000 tonnes in one lift, yet brand-new training innovation on Allseas‘ Pioneering Spirit allows entire topsides of up to 48,000 tonnes to be lifted in one, single lift. The technology was initially developed for the removal of decommissioned platforms, like when Pioneering Spirit set the new world lifting record with the successful removal of Shell’ s 24,000 tonne Brent Delta system in the North Sea.

Equinor is currently the initial customer of the Pioneering Spirit for installment. “This allows for great savings in the construction and installation phases, both in terms of manhours and costs, and, not least, reduces risks related to health, environment and safety,” Equinor states.

“Equinor and the Johan Sverdrup partnership, working closely with Allseas, make a break-through for the industry here. The safety-, schedule- and cost-related benefits are substantial, and we expect that many others will follow suit,” claims Hanssen.

“At the same time making the Johan Sverdrup planning puzzle so dependent on a vessel that was in fact at the time not even fully completed was no easy decision. We of course spent much time with the Johan Sverdrup partnership before coming to this conclusion,” he claims.

Pioneering Spirit will certainly go back to the Johan Sverdrup area in the springtime of 2019, to mount both last topside frameworks in the initial stage of the growth, for the handling system and also the energy and also lodging system.

“We look forward to putting the drilling platform on stream, and completing the pre-drilled wells towards the end of the year and next year, preparing for first oil in late 2019,” claims Stig Åtland, head of exploration and also well for Johan Sverdrup.

With anticipated recoverable sources of in between 2.1 and also 3.1 billion barrels of oil matching, Johan Sverdrup is just one of the 5 greatest oil areas on the Norwegian continental rack and also among one of the most essential commercial jobs in Norway over the following half a century.

The area will certainly be established in numerous stages, with Phase 1 anticipated to launch in late 2019 with manufacturing ability approximated at 440,000 barrels of oil each day.

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