Late last year, Emtunga added new contracts from Pemex and MPF Corp. to its order book for offshore accommodation units. This work will help keep the Gothenburg-based yard busy well into 2008.
The order from Pemex represents a follow-up to previous assignments for the Mexican operator. Emtunga will supply a replacement quarters to be installed on an existing platform in the Cayo Aracs field in the Gulf of Mexico.
Emtunga has won a new contract from Pemex, following last year’s delivery of two replacement quarters units, both pictured here at the Bay Inelectra yard in Tampico, Mexico.
With 150 beds, the unit is somewhat smaller than Emtunga’s previous deliveries to Pemex, but, says marketing and sales manager Klas Wallin, the specs are essentially the same, which reduces the amount of engineering to be done.
The quarters will be supplied in modules that will be delivered in two shipments scheduled for October and November to Industria del Hierro S.A. de C.V., the main contractor, which will assemble the living quarters on the new deck it is fabricating at its site in Tampico. The deck is due to be installed offshore in June 2008.
Emtunga’s second new order, valued at more than €35 million ($68 million), is for Norwegian company MPF Corp.’sMPF 1000 newbuild, the world’s first FDPSO - floating, drilling, production, storage, and offloading vessel. Emtunga will supply an accommodation module for either 120 men in single cabins or up to 240 in double cabins. Helideck, lifeboats and miscellaneous life-saving equipment are also included.
The unit will be built according to the Norsok standards that apply in Norway and will be designed for arctic conditions of down to -30 °C (-22 °F). This will require additional measures including special cladding.
The unit is due to be delivered in May 2008 to a designated hookup yard for installation on the hull in a single lift.
Norwegian restrictions
Capacity remains tight in specialist accommodation unit yards that can work both in aluminum structures and in line with Norsok regulations, Wallin says. This has implications for three important Norwegian projects, all of which were recently out to bid. The final one to be awarded might not be deliverable within the operator’s preferred time-frame.
The three projects are:
- BP’s Valhall PH quarters - Revised bids were invited early this year following changes to the original design
- Statoil’s Gjøa, a 106-bed unit - Contract award was expected in February
- Statoil’s Troll A accommodation expansion project - Bids were delivered in late January.
For more information contact Klas Wallin, Pharmadule Emtunga. Tel +46 31 794 1335, fax +46 31 546 856,[email protected]
