OSBIT Power (OP), a leading Northeast England offshore and subsea engineering company, has successfully delivered two well intervention equipment projects, totaling several million pounds, to Helix Well Ops UK for installation on the Q7000, currently in-build in Singapore.
Each of the two projects is a bespoke, custom-made system; a set of twin Cursor type ROV launch and recovery systems (ROV LARS), forming OP’s largest contract to date, while its umbilical and guide-wire handling system (UGHS) is a design first for the company.
OSBIT, based in Riding Mill, Northumberland, had to overcome challenging space constraints and a need to operate in severe weather conditions and sea states, up to 5m Hs (the measure of significant wave heights) to deliver the twin bespoke heavy weather Cursor type ROV LARS to Helix Well Ops.
The UGHS system facilitates the handling of guide wires and umbilicals above the well head, allowing free and unobstructed access through the moon pool for the launch and recovery of large well equipment.
Both projects are to be installed on Helix’s new Q7000 semisubmersible well intervention vessel.
“We have a strong track-record with Helix; we worked very closely with their own engineers to ensure that the systems can operate reliably in severe conditions and still meet the packaging constraints within the hangars,” said Steve Binney, ROV LARS project manager. “Helix must deploy its ROVs in the most extreme of conditions. In these challenging circumstances, there is no room for error in subsea operations - this demands the very highest standards from suppliers.”
In March, Helix also awarded OP another large contract to produce three sets of intervention tension frame (ITF) systems. One of these systems will also be installed on the Q7000, with the other two being fitted to the new Siem Helix 1 and Siem Helix 2 vessels that are to be chartered by Helix.
“OSBIT has grown rapidly in its five years and it has been able to do so because our engineers have many decades of experience in supplying highly-complex offshore, subsea and military systems. We are also fortunate in having a well-established supply chain in the Northeast of England to support us,” said Tony Trapp, OSBIT managing director.
Image: ROV LARS team/Recognition PR
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