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BOOMVANG-NANSEN

Double Spar Development

 
Client Kerr McGee
Region Gulf of Mexico
Location East Breaks 112 & East Breaks 643
Water Depth 3453-3678 ft.
Services Performed Project Management, Procurement, Front-End Engineering Design, Detailed Engineering, Fabrication, Subsea, Marine Installation
Contractor Spars International, Inc.
Sub-Contractor Mentor Subsea Technology Services, Inc.
Participating Companies CSO-Aker Engineering, Inc.
Award February, 2000
Completion May, 2002
Project Managers

Rick McCandless - JRM
Bob Carter - Mentor Subsea

Consultants J. Ray McDermott Engineering
Other Key Participants TNG Fabrication Yard
Prod. Capacity 40,000 BOPD
Both Facilities 200 MMSCFD

Scope / Description:

  • Contract type: Lump sum
  • Mentor is providing engineering, procurement and project management
  • Each facility utilizes production from wells completed beneath the spar and tied back through Top Tensioned Risers (TTR) and “dry” wellheads and trees. Additionally, tie-ins will be incorporated from subsea satellite wells
  • Mentor’s scope includes nine (9) top tensioned production risers and associated equipment for Nansen and five (5) top tensioned production risers and associated equipment for Boomvang.
  • Design work for SCR’s was performed to assess the impact on hull/truss design with regard to loads
  • Fabrication of production deck
  • Horizontal wet tow of spar hull
  • Installing nine (9) driven piles in 3,700' water depth
  • Upending hull at site
  • Connecting hull to mooring system
  • Installation of fixed ballast
  • Fabricating, transporting & installing buoyancy cans

Innovation / Technology:

  • 9 5/8” single casing riser design
  • Single pieces, multi-chamber buoyancy cans
  • Space saving surface wellhead
  • Ten (10) foot space-out adjustment in addition to riser pups
  • Internal tieback adapter to subsea wellhead & stress joint designed for 350 ft. nominal drilling offset
  • Tensioning monitoring for each top tensioned riser
  • Provision for “through the keel” tie-in of future import or export flowlines or pipelines up to 12”
  • Driving piles in 3,700' water depth
  • Mooring two derrick barges in 3,700' to lift deck using two (2) hooks