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ALE completes offshore scope in Azerbaijan

Thursday, October 12 2017

ALE has completed the offshore and marine operations they are undertaking as part of a major offshore platform project in Azerbaijan.

ALE was contracted for a complex scope of work, involving the load-out of two jackets, weighing and jack-up of the topsides, strand jack skidding load-outs, ballasting and mooring as well as the offshore floatovers for two topsides.

The global heavy lifting contractor commenced the first stage of operations in July 2016 with the ballasting load-outs of the Production and Riser (PR) and the Living Quarters and Utilities (QU) platform jackets, weighing 13,977t and 12,369t respectively.

ALE was contracted by the jacket constructor BOS Shelf to provide the full external ballast system and engineering, as well as the ballast system design and calculations. The jackets were loaded-out onto the same STB-1 launch barge, measuring 153m x 45m x 12m, using the client’s push/pull skidding system.

The next phase involved the weighing and jack-up of the QU topside for a separate client using the Mega Jack system. Load cells were used to weigh the deck at 12,789t and the Mega Jack was deployed to jack-up the topside 14.5m.

The load-out frame was transferred under the topside, before performing the skidding loadout of the QU deck, now at 14,200t, with the use of 900t strand jacks and ballasting the barge. ALE also supplied a large spread of mooring winches ranging in capacity from 20t to 85t.

More recently, ALE completed the floatover of the QU topside using their own ballast system and mooring winches.

 

 

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