In this video, Eni shows the Goliat floating and production storage offloading unit (FPSO) platform arriving in Hammerfest, Norway from the Ulsan shipyard in South Korea after a 63-day journey of 15,608 nautical miles.
The platform was aboard the Dockwise Vanguard, the world’s largest heavy transport vessel, and sailed across the Indian Ocean, around South Africa before heading north to the Atlantic and sailing around the British Isles to its destination at Hammerfest, in the south of Norway.
Since then, the Goliat FPSO has successfully floated off the Dockwise Vanguard in the fjord outside Hammerfest (23 April).
The operation went according to plan, and the platform will now be temporarily moored in Ersvika, 6km south of Hammerfest. Once in Ersvika, work to complete preparations for tow out to the Goliat field will begin. This will include inspections, tests and checks of all systems and equipment. Tow out to the field in the Barents Sea is expected to happen early May. The field is expected to come on stream by mid-2015.
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