part of Aker

Installation of an FPSO and subsea

hardware in the Mediterranean Sea using
non-specialised
non specialised vessels
UTC - BERGEN
June 2008

Ivar Tveitnes

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Aker Marine Contractors - What we do

Mooring & Floaters SURF Operations

Floatovers Removal

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 Work Areas - Assets

BOA DEEP C

BOA SUB C

TURNTABLE

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AGENDA
■ Oudna Installation Preface
■ Vessels
■ Installation of Mooring System
■ Installation
I t ll ti off Fl
Flexible
ibl Ri
Risers/Flowlines
/Fl li and
d
Umbilicals
■ Hook-up
Hook up to FPSO
■ Conclusion

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OUDNA INSTALLATION - PREFACE

■ Tunisian water outside North Africa

■ No offshore bases and limited support
pp infra-structure
■ Specialized installation vessels?
● Large mobilization cost
● Limited
Li it d availability
il bilit
■ Requirements
● Anchor handling (large anchors, heavy chain and fibre ropes)
● Chafe chain and heavy riser guides
● Flexible risers/flowlines and umbilicals

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 Oudna location

IKDAM FPSO

Chafe chain with riser guides

NODE

400 m 239mm polyester rope

800 m 135mm 6.6d chain

Stevpris mk5 29 t

6” Prod; 950m
6

4” Power Fluid 1539m 4” W I ; 1038 m

95mm Umb; 950 m 78mm Umb; 1550 m

Water Injection
j Well
Production Well

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INSTALLATION VESSEL

MAERSK ’A’ CLASS VESSEL

”Maersk Attender”
Main dimensions = 90.3 x 20.3 m
Free deck = 41.6 x 19.5 m
Winches = 625t(AH)/2 x 400t(tow)
Bollard Pull = 257t (23480 hp)
DP2
70 beds

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ASSISTING VESSEL

ANCHOR HANDLING VESSEL

”Odin Viking”
(Viking Supply Ships AS)
Main dimensions = 73.9 x 16.9 m
Winches = 400t (AH)
Bollard Pull = 180t
DP2
26 beds

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 DECK LAYOUT

FOR MOORING INSTALLATION

A-FRAME AND 2 X WROV IN ALL
PHASES

CHAIN IN LOCKERS

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INSTALLATION OF MOORING SYSTEM

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 INSTALLATION OF ”CHAFE CHAIN”

Chafe Chain
installation
frame, 320Te
design load

10 off Guide
Frames

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MOBILISATION FOR FLEXIBLES INSTALLATION

Deck quadrant

4” PF & 6” Prod
(on 26’ reel)

4” WI (on 26’
reel)

Prod & WI umb

Hub drive on rails

2xTensioner’s
Chute

Buoyancy
elements Working platform

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MOBILISATION FOR FLEXIBLES INSTALLATION
Setting up Aquatic tensioners ”Dance floor” assembly
and hub-drive systems around deck quadrant Stern chute installation

Round
R d th
the clock
l k mobilisation
bili ti in
i
Seafastening of reels Umbilical reel drive Freeport, Valletta, Malta

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 INSTALLATION OF FLEXIBLE RISERS/FLOWLINES
Cleaning of well-head
hub

1. Preparations

Deployment of Vertical Connection L di off V

Landing Vertical
ti l
tool Connection tool

2 D
2. Deployment
l t off 1
1stt end
d
(subsea end) and tie-in
to x-mas tree

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 INSTALLATION OF FLEXIBLE RISERS/FLOWLINES

Buoyancy section,
including temporary
buoyancy
Installation of
3. Buoyancy Buoyancy
elements
section

4” PF Installation 4” PF around deck-quadrant

4. Paying out
p
product

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 INSTALLATION OF FLEXIBLE RISERS/FLOWLINES

5. Overboarding of
topside end
Pressuretest
Press retest
ongoing before
overboarding

6. Transfer to- and hang-off

i Ch
in Chafe
f Ch
Chain
i hheld
ld b
by
Assisting vessel

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 INSTALLATION OF UMBILICALS

• Reverse lay direction as opposed to

riser/flowlines
• Light weight in water required chain
weights to temporarily weigh down during
installation of buoyancy section
• Umbilical tie-in done by Flying Lead.
WROV – Male-MQC plate connected to
F
Female-MQC
l MQC on x-mas tree t

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 HOOK-UP OF MOORING AND FLEXIBLES TO FPSO

1. Chafe Chain transferred

from Assisting Vessel to
FPSO ’Ikdam’

2. Flexibles transferred one

by one from Assisting All Risers through All Risers through
Guide Frame 10 Guide Frames
Vessel to FPSO ’Ikdam’

3 Testing / comissioning of
3.
flexible flowlines / risers
and umbilicals

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CONCLUSION

■ Complex marine operations may be performed using standard

large AHTS,
AHTS based on innovative engineering and planning
■ Effective use of available vessels – Installation of Mooring
system and Flexibles using same vessel
■ Solution oriented and dedicated project team consisting of
own personnel and subcontractors
■ The project planning and execution off the operations involved
several challenges…
■ …But;
But; ”WE
WE DID IT!”
IT!

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