Technip and South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) are teaming up to develop a joint design of a low motion semisubmersible production platform.
Technip and SHI already work together under a consortium arrangement, the Technip Samsung Consortium, which has seen the two firms work on Shell's Prelude FLNG project and more recently it won a contract for front end engineering and design on the Browse FLNG project offshore Australia.
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The latest collaboration between the two firms will see Technip’s engineering expertise and SHI’s experience used to develop a semisubmersible floating production system (FPS) design and delivery model, with the pair aimnig to define a "global configuration" which can also meet clients’ specific project design requirements, with SHI performing detailed design and fabrication.
According to Technip, the partnership will lead to compressed design and delivery for the production systems; and cover joint design and delivery of topsides for the semisubmersible systems.
Technip’s patented Heave and VIM Suppressed (HVS) semisubmersible will be used to develop the hull form. HVS is a low-motion semisubmersible platform that reduces the fatigue on risers connected to it, and enables it to support large diameter steel catenary risers in water depths that would not be possible for conventional semisubmersibles, making it suitable for deepwater developments.
Partner SHI has fabricated several production semisubmersibles, including Chevron’s Jack St. Malo for the US Gulf of Mexico and INPEX’s Ichthys central processing facility for offshore Australia.
“While our expertise covers a full range of offshore facilities, we are delighted to jointly develop this semisubmersible design for global FPS markets, in close collaboration with our partner Samsung Heavy Industries, building upon our long-term relationship on various projects such as past FPSO fabrications and the current Prelude FLNG facility,” Jim O’Sullivan, Technip USA chief technology officer offshore said.
In July 2009, Shell signed a master agreement with the Technip-Samsung Consortium to work on the design, construction and installation of multiple floating LNG facilities over a period of up to 15 years based on Shell’s proprietary design. This was followed by a specific agreement in May 2013 to proceed with detailed design and construction of a facility for Prelude, which is wholly owned by Shell.
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