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Client
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Kerr McGee
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Region
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Gulf of Mexico
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Location
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East Breaks 112 & East Breaks 643
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Water Depth
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3453-3678 ft.
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Services Performed
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Project Management, Procurement, Front-End Engineering Design, Detailed Engineering, Fabrication, Subsea, Marine Installation
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| 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
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| 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
- Mentors 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 SCRs 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
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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
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