Heavy transportation and lifting specialist ALE said it has been awarded a steel catenary riser (SCR) and umbilical pull-in contract by Subsea 7 USA. The scope of work included in this contract is for engineering, procurement, fabrication and offshore pull-in operations in the US Gulf of Mexico.
ALE said it will start the engineering phase of this project immediately with offshore operations to follow in the first quarter of 2020.
The contracted offshore SCR and umbilical pull-in operations will be performed at Mississippi Canyon (MC), on an existing production facility located south of New Orleans, in approximately 1,900 meters of water. ALE said it will provide Subsea 7 and its client with a unique and lightweight equipment solution to pull dynamic loads topping 335 tons.
Although ALE has the capabilities to offer 800-ton socket passing linear winches, or 500-ton chain jacking systems, the solution offered for this project has the ability to alter how high-load SCR pull-in operations could be performed moving forward, the company said.
Heath Jones, ALE VP Sales (Offshore), said, “As with most SCR and umbilical pull-in project scopes, we were faced with the limits of space, equipment weights vs. operational capabilities, contingencies and redundancies, and most importantly the health and safety of every person and the environment.
“The challenge that ALE was presented with was to deliver solutions that would truly offer tangible benefits to every part of the project where we were involved, and we did just that.”
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