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| Image: manifolds leaving Rosythe/Babcock |
A major milestone has been reached in Babcock’s delivery of 73 subsea structures for BP’s Quad 204 offshore redevelopment project, 130km west of Shetland, forming an integral part of the major investment in the upgrading and replacement of the subsea facilities to enable the full development of the reserves.
Two highly engineered manifolds, the largest and most complex constructions within the project, have been manufactured, painted and outfitted, at Babcock’s Rosyth facility on the Forth. With the combined weight of 326-tonne the manifolds are central parts of the 2015 installation program.
The structures were transported to Lerwick by freighter and then transferred to a dedicated heavy lift vessel for installation at the Schiehallion and Loyal oil and gas fields, helping to extend production at the North Sea site until 2035.
Babcock has also installed pipe spools and pressure tested the structures at Rosyth before handing them over to BP and its sub-contractors to carry out controls fit out and site integration testing.
The manifolds were joined on the journey to the North Sea production site by two control distribution assemblies.
To date Babcock has delivered 65 of 73 structures including all of the 2015 program requirements with the remaining eight at advanced stages of the project lifecycle.
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