Akastor’s subsidiary DDW Offshore has secured a contract extension with Petrofac for its AHTS vessel that might be placed on the Northern Endeavour FPSO disconnection job offshore Australia.
The contract extension follows the unique one-year contract Petrofac signed with DDW Offshore for the AHTS vessel Skandi Atlantic again in September 2022.
Petrofac has now awarded DDW Offshore a 9-month extension of the prevailing contract in Australia whereby Skandi Emerald will change Skandi Atlantic in March 2024.
The contract will final till year-end 2024, DDW Offshore knowledgeable.
Skandi Emerald will proceed to help the disconnection of the FPSO Northern Endeavour in addition to help towing and effectively isolation work on the Laminaria Corallina oil fields within the West Timor Sea.
After demobilization in March, Skandi Atlantic will bear its particular survey for sophistication renewal in Singapore and is anticipated to be out there for brand spanking new contract by finish of April 2024, in keeping with DDW Offshore.
Northern Endeavour FPSO is at the moment moored between the Laminaria and Corallina oil fields about 550 kilometers northwest of Darwin within the Timor Sea, and isn’t producing oil.
Petrofac formally took over operatorship of the Northern Endeavour FPSO on behalf of the Australian Government, following the decommissioning contract award in 2022.
Th scope of the contract for Petrofac because the outsourced operator is to decommission and disconnect the FPSO from its subsea gear, and quickly droop the wells.
