2005 Annual Report - SBM Offshore

Report of the Board of Management
Trials with the pile upending and guidance tool for the installation of
mono-pile foundations for wind turbines
a record time of four months, and thirty mono-pile
foundations for the Barrows offshore windfarm project
were successfully installed with the tool in the second half
of 2005;
• in conjunction with the basic design package for the four
jack-up drilling rigs for Maersk Contractors, KeppelFels
ordered from MSC the supply of four sets of the patented
skidding and fixation systems for the jack-ups.
Offshore Contracting and After Sales Services
2005 has been an extremely busy year with execution of a
large variety of orders in all areas of activity including offshore
contracting, system overhauls and spare part supplies.
Offshore Contracting
Both SBM’s ‘Dynamic Installer’ and the ‘Normand Progress’,
under charter from Solstad until September 2005, were fully
occupied with installation work related to several of the
turnkey supply and install contracts and a series of
contracting jobs for third parties.
The ‘in house’ work included:
• hook-up of the Sanha LPG FPSO offshore Angola;
• miscellaneous sub sea installation work in the Bonga field
for Shell Nigeria;
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• installation of the CALM and CBM terminal for Trafigura,
Tema, Ghana;
• installation of a CALM type barge mooring for BMT Marine
in the Mediterranean offshore France.
The main ‘third party’ contracts covered:
• sub sea pipeline repair work, and other saturation diving
activities, for Total offshore Angola and Congo;
• installation of sub sea spool pieces for ExxonMobil in the
Yoho field, Nigeria;
• deepwater installation works in relation to the deployment
of an FPSO on the Baobab field operated by Canadian
National Resources, Ivory Coast;
• replacement of sub sea hoses at the Amenam terminal of
Total, Nigeria;
• installation of I-tubes on the Girassol FPSO for the tie-back
of the Rosa field;
• sub sea tie-back work to the FPSO of Vaalco offshore
Gabon;
• sub sea repair work for Marathon Equatorial Guinea at the
Alba LPG terminal;
• saturation diving works for the revamping of the Palanca
terminal of Total, Angola;
• provision of diving support for the FPSO installation at the
Okwori field for Addax, Nigeria;
• cable laying for ENI in the Djambala field offshore Congo.
System Overhauls
• overhaul of a CALM system for BMT Marine in France;
• overhaul of the first disconnectable turret mooring
supplied in 1985 to ACT for the mooring of the FPSO ‘Nan
Hai Fa Xian’ offshore China;
Tie-in of the floating hose string during the installation of a
CALM terminal