Offshore staff
HOUSTON –Shell Offshore Inc.has signed a multi-service vessel charter with Oceaneering International Inc. to use the Ocean Alliance in the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM).
Shell expects to use the vessel for subsea inspection, maintenance, and repair (IMR) projects, and hardware installations. IMR projects are anticipated to include a range of intervention tasks, including chemical well stimulation and hydrate remediation. Hardware installations are anticipated to include flowline jumpers, umbilicals, production trees, and flying leads.
Under separate installation and IMR frame agreements,Oceaneering may also provide project management, engineering, fabrication, and vessel equipment and service packages to Shell on an as-needed basis to support the Ocean Alliance.
TheOcean Allianceis a US flagged vessel built in 2010. It has an overall length of approximately 309 ft (94 m), a DP-2 system, accommodations for 69 personnel, a helideck, a 150-ton active heave compensated crane, and a working moonpool.
The vessel is outfitted with two Oceaneering work class ROVs and a satellite communications system capable of transmitting streaming video for real-time work observation by shore personnel.
01/15/2015
