Tracy Dulle • Houston
Dockwise Shipping awarded $45 million in contracts
Dockwise Shipping has received nine contracts totaling $45 million for the transportation of jackup and semisubmersible drilling rigs, dredging equipment, and various other cargoes.
The company is transporting the drilling rigNoble Roy Butler to its new assignment in the Gulf of Mexico for Noble Drilling.
Dockwise Shipping also will transport one jackup drilling rig each to Malaysia, China, and Dubai. The company has been contracted to transport a dredging cargo to Saudi Arabia, the KSTitan 2 liftboat to Rotterdam, as well as a workover jackup to Gabon. All projects were scheduled for 4Q 2008.
This year, Dockwise Shipping will transport the semisubmersibleWest Setia for Seadrill from Singapore to West Africa.
In 2010, the newbuild semisubmersible production platformDelba III is scheduled for transport to Brazil, the company says.
Halliburton unveils Stim Star Borneo
Halliburton has unveiled its new vessel, theStim Star Borneo, a self-propelled barge designed to work in offshore oil and gas fields with the additional capability of servicing wells in the rivers and deltas in Indonesia.
The vessel is fully equipped to handle all phases of production stimulation including acidizing, acid fracturing, proppant fracturing, sand control, and conformance treatments. In addition, it is equipped to provide well intervention services using coiled tubing.
Halliburton’s new self propelled barge theStim Star Borneo
At 200 ft (61 m) length and 66 ft (20 m) width, the vessel has an operating draft of 10.5 ft (3.2 m) offshore and 9 ft (2.7 m) in the delta areas. Above deck storage capacities consist of 5,200 gal acid, almost 4,400 gal additives, and 350,000 lb proppant. Below deck capacities are almost 3,500 bbl of process and completion fluid and over 4,700 bbl of drill water. Maximum fracturing rate is 18 b/min with sand and 25 b/min with clean fluid.
TheStim Star Borneo meets or exceeds the requirement of SOLAS and other regulatory bodies, the company says. In addition, the vessel is outfitted to provide environmentally sustainable operations.
TheStim Star Borneo is equipped with Halliburton’s proprietary InstaVis gel-on-the-fly system that uses a fully hydrated fracturing gel.
Keppel scores multiple contracts
Keppel Offshore & Marine has secured SGD 340 million ($227 million) worth of contracts through its subsidiaries.
The scope of work includes the repair, life extension, and conversion of a Panamax Tanker built in 1989 into an FSO which involves the fabrication and installation of an external turret mooring system, cargo offloading station, metering skid and helideck, as well as the upgrading of accommodation, fire fighting system, and communication systems.
When completed in 3Q 2009, the FSO will have capacity to store 546,000 bbl of oil with a maximum stabilized condensate production of 20,000 b/d. It will operate in the Joint Development Area (JDA) off the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia for Carigali-PTTEPI’s block B-17 field development project.
The second contract by Keppel Shipyard is for the construction of an internal turret for SBM Offshore Inc., which will be supplied to their end client BP Norge AS, for the Skarv FPSO unit.
When completed, the internal turret will be the largest in the world in terms of its rated mooring loads. The Skarv FPSO will serve the Skarv Development offshore Norway.
The third contract is by Keppel Verolme BV (Keppel Verolme) for refurbishment and outfitting of a semisubmersible multi-service vessel for Prosafe Rigs Pte Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Prosafe SE.
Scheduled to arrive in this quarter, the vessel,MSV Regalia, will undergo a refurbishment program which includes part renewal of the accommodation, entertainment, catering, office and exercise facilities. It will also have its main engines renewed, thrusters, and dynamic positioning system refurbished, and hull blasted and painted.
The vessel is scheduled to be completed in 2Q 2009.
The fourth contract, for the fabrication, installation, and integration of topside process modules for the FPSOP-57, has been secured by Keppel FELS Brasil from SBM Offshore.
The workscope includes fabrication and erection of topsides modules, piping, electrical equipment, instruments, as well as pre-commissioning and assistance to commissioning. The modules are expected to be delivered by end-2009 with the commissioning and integration in 3Q 2010.
The upgrading and conversion of the FPSOP-57 is under way by Keppel Shipyard for SBM Offshore. It is expected to leave Keppel Shipyard in 4Q 2009 for Brazil.
Strategic Marine delivers floating dry dock base pontoon
Strategic Marine has delivered the base pontoon of a floating dry dock to the Australian Marine Complex (AMC) at Henderson, south of Perth.
Strategic Marine’s Vietnamese facility at Dong Xuyen Industrial Zone completed construction of the 99 m (325 ft) long and 53 m (174 ft) wide steel structure. The dock’s 4,400-metric ton (4,850-ton) steel base was lifted aboard the Dockwise submersibleMV Teal for its 16-day journey to the AMC’s Common User (CUP) facility at Henderson. The vessel submerged to float off the structure before it was towed into the facility by three tugs.
Once the dock is handed over to the AMC next July, it will achieve a global “first” with a newly developed digital memory to give it a fully automated capability, Strategic Marine says.
