Norwegian offshore vessel operator DOF Group has secured a ‘substantial’ subsea engineering procurement elimination and disposal (EPRD) contract from Norske Shell within the Atlantic area.
The contract outlines 100 mixed days of utilization of DOF’s vessels Skandi Hera and Maersk Installer.
DOF will ship an built-in resolution of undertaking administration, engineering, design, evaluation and survey.
Described as ‘substantial’ by DOF, which means the contract is valued between $23.8 million and $47.8 million (NOK 250 million to NOK 500 million).
The scope contains restoration and recycling of umbilicals, risers, inflexible spools, manifolds and different subsea constructions and infrastructure, on the Knarr and Gaupe fields.
Gaupe is an oil and fuel discipline near the boundary with the UK shelf, round 12 km south of Varg, and in 90-meter water depth. Knarr is an oil discipline within the North Sea, round 50 km north-east of Snorre.
“The award continues to reveal DOF’s inhouse functionality of providing turnkey options to our present and new clients, constructing on our established functionality providing within the decommissioning market,” stated Mons S. Aase, CEO DOF Group.
Preparations for the decommissioning operations have began and the undertaking will likely be run from DOF’s workplaces in Bergen and Aberdeen with offshore execution deliberate within the second and third quarter of 2025.
Skandi Hera is a 2009-built Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessel of Ulstein A122 design. It is appropriate for discipline set up operations throughout a variety of water depths and situations.
Maersk Installer has been added to DOF’s fleet in November 2023, by a two-year agency time constitution with Maersk Supply Service, with extension choices.
Delivered in 2017, Maersk Installer is a big development vessel and, in response to DOF, is amongst the most recent and most fashionable subsea vessels in the marketplace.
It is provided with a 400-ton AHC crane and a 100-ton AHC crane to provide most flexibility for using the big, 1850 m2 deck.
