Jacket News

 

Video: Sverdrup coming into focus

Jul 31, 2017

Statoil successfully installed the largest jacket on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) at its Johan Sverdrup project, giving the Norwegian giant the first visible sign of the field. The jacket…

Maersk Culzean jackets installed

Jul 21, 2017

All three of Maersk Oil's Culzean high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) development jackets have been installed in the UK North Sea. Maersk says they were installed on time and on budget, about 145mi east of Aberdeen and is estimated to produce between 60…

Culzean jackets set sail to North Sea

Jul 07, 2017

Maersk Oil’s Culzean jackets have set sail for their final destination in the UK North Sea, following the completion of construction by Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG). Image from Heerema. According to HFG…

Kvaerner completes first Sverdrup jacket

Jun 23, 2017

Kvaerner has completed the Johan Sverdrup riser platform (RP), named Ægir, with delivery set for next month. Image from Kvaerner. The jacket is the first major structure for the Johan Sverdrup project to be completed…

McDermott installs Safaniya jacket

Jun 13, 2017

McDermott International recently completed the load-out and installation of the first jacket fully fabricated by the company at its recently opened Dammam fabrication yard in Saudi Arabia. The Safaniya 264 jacket is part of McDermott’s…

Heerema inks Peregrino II jacket deal

May 16, 2017

Image of Koos-Jan van Brouwershaven, CEO, Heerema Fabrication Group; and Martijn Smit, general manager, South Atlantic Holding, signing the contract. Image from Heerema.  Heerema…

Boskalis contracts SPT for wind farm foundations

Apr 20, 2017

Dutch marine contractor Boskalis has picked SPT Offshore for the detailed design and installation of 33 suction pile foundations for the foundations of 11 suction bucket jackets for the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm. The European Offshore…

Shah Deniz 2 jacket sets sail

Mar 16, 2017

The second jacket for the Shah Deniz Stage 2 platforms has set sail to the Caspian Sea offshore Azerbaijan, the BP-led Shah Deniz consortium announced today (16 March). Sailaway of the QU jacket…

OWA launches JaCo project

Feb 22, 2017

The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) announced its US$3 million (£2.4 million) Improved Fatigue Life of Welded Jacket Connections (JaCo) project, aiming to cut the cost of offshore wind by optimizing the design of jacket foundations…

Kvaerner receives Sverdrup jacket components

Oct 06, 2016

The first of two shipments of pile clusters and flotation tanks arrived at Kvaerner’s yard at Verdal earlier this week (4 October), which will be installed on the first and largest steel jacket for the Johan Sverdrup projects, currently under construction at Verdal…

Hummer's jacket arrives off Louisiana

Sep 09, 2016

Following a short weather related delay, the barge transporting the recently fabricated Hummer platform jacket has arrived on site in offshore Louisiana, according to Petsec Energy. Image of drilling operations at Hummer…

Shah Deniz 2 jacket sails away

Sep 01, 2016

The Shah Deniz Stage 2 platforms sailed away from the Heydar Aliyev Baku Deepwater Jackets Factory (BDJF) for offshore installation for the BP-led project offshore Azerbaijan.  Shah Deniz 2 jacket…

SLP jacket installed at 0.01 degrees

Jun 01, 2016

The offshore substation jacket for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm, made in Lowestoft by Sembmarine SLP, has been successfully installed in the seabed on site. The four-legged jacket, designed and built by Sembmarine SLP, stands at a near-perfect verticality of 0…

Culzean wellhead jacket sets sail

Apr 13, 2016

The wellhead jacket and the access deck have set sail from the Netherlands and are headed for Maersk Oil’s ultra high pressure, high temperature Culzean development in the UK North Sea. Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) announced the completion of both projects…

Qatar Petroleum awards McDermott EPCI project

Oct 08, 2015

McDermott International has been awarded a brownfield project by Qatar Petroleum for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of four wellhead jackets. Installation of two jackets in the Bul-Hanine field offshore…

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