The Shah Deniz Stage 2 platforms sailed away from the Heydar Aliyev Baku Deepwater Jackets Factory (BDJF) for offshore installation for the BP-led project offshore Azerbaijan.
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Shah Deniz 2 jacket. Image from BP. |
The PR platform jacket weighs 13,150-tonne and stands 105m high. It contains 12 production risers, three export risers and a dedicated monoethylene glycol (MEG) import riser. The jacket will be installed in a water depth of 94m.
The transportation, launch, positioning and pile installation activities of the production and risers (PR) platform jacket structure have been carefully planned and are expected to take around 40 days to complete.
BP’s Shah Deniz project is 90km offshore Azerbaijan, in 75-550m water depth. First gas is expected in 2018.
The construction of the jacket was completed on schedule and on 29 July 2016 it was successfully loaded out onto the transportation barge STB-1 at the quayside of BDJF in preparation for the sail away to the Shah Deniz contract area in the Caspian Sea.
The PR platform jacket, built by the BOS Shelf, Star Gulf and Saipem consortium, was fully constructed in country at the BDJF, using local construction infrastructure and facilities. Over 4700 people including sub-contractors and specialist vendors were involved in the construction works. Some 90% of the construction workforce was Azerbaijan citizens.
The official sail away ceremony, which was held at BDJF today, was attended by H.E. President Ilham Aliyev of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Ewan Drummond, vice-president, Shah Deniz 2 projects, said:
“The first jacket sail away is an important milestone and we are pleased to have achieved this as we move towards completion of other areas of the project.
The Shah Deniz consortium consists of: BP, operator (28.8%), SOCAR (16.7%), PETRONAS (15.5%), Total (10%), Lukoil (10%), NICO (10%) and TPAO (9%).
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