Turkmenistan Topsides and Jacket Load out for MMHE/TPGM
Client: MMHE/TPGM
Project: Petronas Carigali Block 1 Development, offshore Turkmenistan
Scope of work: Load-out and installation of jacket and topside
Date of completion: June 2011
Project details
This £6.5 million contract to enable and support the load-out and installation of a jacket and topside for Malaysian Marine and Heavy Engineering (MMHE)/TPGM involved the hire of an extensive range of machinery from the ACE Hire Equipment portfolio. The equipment included 6 x 100te WLL Double Drum Diesel Mooring Winches, 8 x 70te WLL Single Drum Winches, 2 x 26te WLL Abandonment and Recovery (A & R) Winches, 1 x 50te capacity Spooling Winch, 12 x Diesel-driven Hydraulic Power Units (HPUs) and 20 SWL Running Line Monitors, ranging from 50te to 200te.
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The first phase of the project involved the installation of the jacket, followed by the second phase of the float-over of the MCR platform topsides into position on the jacket. The equipment was operated by a team of certified ACE Hire Personnel, including a project manager, field project engineer and several winch operators and technicians on a rotational basis.
The process of winch equipment mobilisation and testing on ACE’s 750-tonne test bed facilities was completed in a record time of three weeks in August 2010. The first movement of equipment required 17 trucks to transport machinery from ACE Winches’ facilities to Aberdeen Harbour for a four-week journey by ship to the Caspian Sea. A further seven articulated vehicles delivered the second movement of materials by road to Kiyanli Yard in Turkmenbashi.
