2008 Annual Report - SBM Offshore

48 SBM Offshore Annual Report 2008 / Report of the Board of ManagementPipelay vessels, Crane vessels and Offshore Cranes• An order for the basic design for Heerema’s plannednew semi-submersible crane vessel. The scopecomprised the naval architectural, structural, marinesystems and electrical system design and theintegration of the crane and pipelaying equipment.Engineering Orders• completion of the Front End Engineering & Designstudy (FEED) for the topsides production facilities forthe P-55 production unit for Petrobras;• an order from Petrobras for the design of a range ofpipelay stingers for the pipelaying vessel BGL-1;• the engineering work for Teekay Petrojarl requiredto document the suitability of the GustoMSC CJ70-150MC jack-up carrying a production module andsupporting 16 well risers on the DetNorske Froy field;• a study to upgrade the jack-up Saturn to a Cantileverdrilling jack-up for GSP Drilling;• the basic design and engineering of “add-footings”for Master Marine for the first ServiceJack jack-upunder construction at the Drydocks World yard inBatam;• an order from Parker Drilling for detailed engineeringof the Pipebarn structure of their Arctic rig for theArkutun-Dagi project on Sakhalin Island;• an order for detailed engineering for upgrades totwo self-contained platform drilling rigs for Statoil’sPeregrino project offshore Brazil.Offshore ContractingOffshore ContractingBoth dynamically positioned installation vessels, the‘Normand Installer’ and ‘Dynamic Installer’ were fullyoccupied during 2008 with installation works related toseveral of the Company’s EPCI contracts and a series ofcontracting jobs for third parties.The ‘Normand Installer’ has installed all the new FPSOsas part of ‘in-house’ work, with a good amount of thirdparty work resulting in a record year for occupancy. It wasthe vessel’s second full year of operations and the widerange of operations handled has fully demonstrated herprominent qualities: ‘safety, efficiency, redundancy, andversatility’.In chronological sequence the following main jobs havebeen completed by the "Normand Installer":• installation of the mooring system and hook up of theFPSO Agbami and deepwater CALM buoy, offshoreNigeria;• flowlines repair for MEGI Opalo, offshore EquatorialGuinea;• repairs to the Bonga deepwater CALM buoyoutboard pipe swivel, offshore Nigeria;• mooring system and anchor piles installation forFPSO Frade, offshore Brazil;• anchor piles installation for FPSO Espirito Santo onBC-10 field, offshore Brazil;• installation of mooring system of FPSO Espirito Santofor Shell in Brazil;• hook up of FPSO Saxi Batuque, offshore Angola;• risers and jumpers installation on FPSO SaxiBatuque, offshore Angola;• gas lift jumper relocation on Oveng field for Hess,offshore Equatorial Guinea;• subsea manifold installations on Corrib field, Yme andRey fields for Technip in North Sea (UK and Norway);• SLS installation for Talisman, offshore Norway;• subsea piles installation on Azurite field, offshoreCongo;• rig move and mooring installation for Total, offshoreCongo.