Fossil Energy – Installation
Allseas has recently installed the 23,000-tonne topsides at Cenovus Energy’s West White Rose development offshore Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Completed on 16 July, the lift marks Pioneering Spirit’s first-ever topsides installation onto a concrete gravity structure (CGS) and first major heavy lift assignment outside northern Europe.
The topsides structure – comprising drilling facilities, a flare boom and living quarters for 144 personnel – was safely mated with its 210,000-tonne concrete base at the Grand Banks field location.
The substructure arrived weeks earlier following a 5,500-kilometre journey from the fabrication yard in Ingleside, Texas.
