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FPSO Kwame Nkrumah: Revealing GhanaÕs Jubilee Development
FPSO Kwame Nkrumah: Revealing Ghana’s Jubilee Development
13 June 2013 London Evening Meeting
Chairman Bob Allwood, SUT
Presentation
FPSO Kwame Nkrumah: Revealing Ghana’s Jubilee Development
Roger Swaine, Group Projects and Engineering Manager, Tullow Oil
The Jubilee field straddles the Deepwater Tano and West Cape Three Points licenses some 60 km offshore Ghana & 130 km southwest of the port city Takoradi. This presentation outlined the successful delivery of this “ultra fast track” project which set records for the industry and which has now been in production for more than two years. The FPSO is named the Kwame Nkrumah after the first President of Ghana and is converted from an existing Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) 1991 single hull tanker by MODEC in the Jurong shipyard, Singapore.
Conversion work commenced in November 2008 and FPSO arrived in Ghanaian waters June 2010. Start-up November 2010.
The subsea architecture consists of 46 km of subsea flowlines supplied by Technip, 28 km of umbilicals supplied by Aker, 19 Subsea trees, 8 manifolds and 2 riser bases supplied by FMC. 14 vessels were directly involved in installation operated from the Takoradi-Sekondi port.
Optoelectronic Technologies for the Oil and Gas Industry – Technical Meeting Series
Lessons Learnt
Lessons Learnt
5 June 2013 Aberdeen Evening Meeting
Chairman Martin Harley, BG Group
Presentations
Gryphon Reinstatement – Navigating Complexity, Unlocking Potential
Shona Campbell, Project Manager, Maersk Oil
The Gryphon FPSO, located 175 miles north east of Aberdeen, sustained damage in a storm on 4 February 2011 when four anchor chains broke and the vessel moved off station. This caused considerable damage to the subsea architecture requiring the Gryphon FPSO to be towed and dry docked in Damen shipyard in Rotterdam for repairs and upgrades. While work commenced on removing and replacing the damaged subsea equipment, Maersk Oil was designing, procuring, installing and rebuilding simultaneously. This talk focused on lessons learned on the Subsea Reinstatement Project.
Brownfield Projects – Concept to Commissioning, answering the challenge
Tony Pincombe, Global Sales Manager – Brownfield Projects, GE Oil & Gas
GE Oil and Gas has now completed several Brownfield projects in the North Sea region including two major field upgrades and expansions. The scopes encompassed refurbishment, new build and technology insertion. Each challenge was driven by unique field characteristics and all incorporated varying degrees of complexity. The lessons learnt from implementing a Brownfield project from scratch have been many and this talk focused on the key lessons learnt from the initial concept phase through to the subsea commissioning.
Salvage and Decommissioning
AllÐEnergy 2013
Post-Macondo
Post-Macondo
22 May 2013 Newcastle Evening Meeting
Chairman Dr. Malcolm Storey, Director, Worldwide Business Portfolios Ltd
Overview
The Macondo Blowout caught the media attention because ‘Public opinion matters’. What this illustrates is that ‘High-Technology businesses are about much more than just the nuts and bolts’; that they are not immune from a worldview.
Yet, it is proper to ask searching quetions about the industry’s strategic awareness, and to cement the answers into practice, because the outcomes reflect the Global Oil Industry and, especially, the Subsea Sector.
This event used Post-Macondo to consider the levels of technology and the perceptions pertaining to the contemporary Oil and Gas industry.
Presentations
Design of the Marine Well Containment System
Dr. Alan Dobson, Research and Development Manager, Technip Umbilical Systems
In response to the significant risks highlighted by the Macondo incident several rapid deployment containment systems are being developed by various consortia. This presentation covered the system developed for installation in water depths up to 3000m and it will provide an overview of the system, its operation and the technology.
Perceptions on the British Oil and Gas Industry
Trisha O’Reilly, Communications Director, Oil and Gas UK
Oil and Gas UK’s ‘Industry Awareness’ campaign seeks to shift public perceptions that the British Oil and Gas Sector is a sunset business. It concerns efforts to improve public opinion about the contribution this Industry makes to the domestic economy because, if allowed to persist, the effects will be damaging. The initiative seeks to transform those perceptions for the better.