Offshore staff
DUBAI, UAE – Drydocks World has staged a steel-cutting ceremony as fabrication started for a single point mooring buoy (the Lekki SPM project).
This will be installed in the petroleum product handling complex at the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos State, Nigeria.
Orwell Offshore secured the contract for the fabrication of the buoy, which will be 16.5 m (54.1 ft) in diameter, 10.6 m (34.8 ft) tall, and with a weight of around 290 tons. Pinnacle Oil & Gas is expected to install the buoy.
Drydocks World - Dubai’s scope includes bulk procurement, fabrication engineering, assembly, machining, inspection, mechanical completion, testing and load-out of the SPM buoy.
The structure, which should be delivered by the end of 1Q 2021, will transfer petroleum products through pipelines between the offshore mooring facilities and the onshore storage terminal.
Lekki SPM will be certified in line with the ABS Rules for Building and Classing Single Point Moorings, 2014.
10/01/2020
