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Wood Group PSN awarded
commissioning contract for Chevron’s
Big Foot facility
Wood Group PSN has been granted a multi-million dollar,
three year contract by Chevron U.S.A. Inc. to commission the
Big Foot extended tension leg platform in the deepwater Gulf
of Mexico.
Work will be performed by DSI, Wood Group PSN’s
commissioning services business. DSI’s scope of work
covers the full commissioning process, from development
of procedures, through inspection and testing of every
operational component at the South Texas fabrication yards
and offshore, to the final hand-over of systems to Chevron.
Dockwise lands contract from Chevron
for its US$4 billion Big Foot Platform
Dockwise has been awarded a contract from Chevron to
transport its Big Foot platform newbuilding from South Korea
to the Gulf of Mexico. Dockwise is understood to have lined
up its vessel Mighty Servant 1 for the transportation of the
46,000-tonne extended tension-leg platform from Daewoo
Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in the second half of
2012.
The journey is expected to take around two months but could
not be drawn on the contract price. Chevron signed off on its
US$4 billion Big Foot development in December 2010. The
platform will sit at the field some 320 kilometres south of
New Orleans in water depths of 1600 metres and will have a
drilling rig onboard.
Local yard Gulf Island Fabrication was awarded the contract
to build the topside for the platform in December 2010.
GE to supply TLP Tensioner System for
Chevron’s Big Foot Platform in a deal
worth US$45 million
GE Oil & Gas received a US$45 million contract from
Chevron for the supply and service of a tension leg platform
(TLP), marine riser Tensioner Systems, for deployment on its
Big Foot oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico.
The company is making key design modifications to develop
‘push-up’ style, marine riser Tensioner equipment, to enable
the Big Foot TLP to deal with challenging wave and current
movement conditions of deepwater applications.
The Big Foot TLP will be the first unit to operate in a water
depth of 1,585 metres. The TLP will include an on-board
drilling rig and will have a production capacity of 75,000
barrels of oil per day and 25 million cubic feet per day of
natural gas. Installation of the TLP is scheduled to begin in
November 2012 and first oil is expected in 2014.
BMT to provide Tow Simulation Services
for Chevron’s Jack St. Malo and Big Foot
Platforms
Heerema Marine Contractors Nederland B.V Inc. has
awarded a contract to BMT Fluid Mechanics in partnership
with BMT ARGOSS, providing Tow Simulation Services for
the inshore tow of Jack St. Malo and Big Foot Production
Platforms to be installed in the Gulf of Mexico.
BMT will be engineering, procuring, installing and
commissioning a purpose built simulation facility to be
located in Houston, Texas, for the purpose of training tug
captains and other marine personnel involved with the
inshore towing of the platforms from the Ingleside integration
yards. The inshore tows are particularly challenging because
of the extremely small hull clearances within the shipping
channels leading from the yards out to the gulf. Up to five
independently controlled tug boats will be effectively, rigidly
coupled to the hull to perform the 24 kilometre wet-tows.
BMT’s PC Rembrandt real time manoeuvring training
software will be the basis of the simulator. The simulator
will provide a realistic hands-on facility for tug captains to
develop safe operating strategies for the tow and develop
rational weather and tide operating limits.
Harris wins telecom deal for Chevron’s
Big Foot platform project in the Gulf of
Mexico
Harris CapRock Communications has signed a contract to
provide telecommunications systems and infrastructure for
Chevron’s Big Foot platform project in the Gulf of Mexico.
Under the terms of the agreement, Harris CapRock will
conduct the robust design, integration and testing of
telecommunications subsystems, including UHF (Ultra-High
Frequency) trunked, marine VHF (Very High Frequency),
survival and aeronautical radios, radar, AIS (Automatic
Identification System) and weather tracking systems,
closed-circuit and entertainment TV, personnel on board
location and access, VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal)
and associated fibre, CAT-6 structured cabling, and the
infrastructure to support all services.
Chevron requires a customised solution including the design,
integration and testing of telecommunications systems
before deployment, along with VSAT hardware and service
during production. Specifically, Chevron’s needs include
telecommunications and electronic equipment, fibre and
structured cabling, RF (Radio Frequency) and coax cabling,
and an overall telecommunications infrastructure.
The systems integration work will support all aspects of
the project from design through to FAT (Factory Acceptance
Testing), with the testing period to be held at Harris
CapRock’s energy headquarters in Houston, Texas.
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