Van Oord Makes History with Record-Breaking Subsea Rock Installation Offshore Senegal
firm Van Oord has informed that its flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes has set a new world record. The vessel carried out subsea rock installation works what Van Oord says is a record water depth of 1.364 meters, with Van Oord comparing the distance to "almost five times the length of the Eiffel tower!"The Subsea Rock installation works were executed in relation to the development of the Woodside-operated Sangomar field in Senegal. Subsea 7 contracted Van Oord to install 262.000 tonnes of rock in water depths ranging from 800 to the record depth of 1.364 meters for the stabilization
Changing the Landscape of LNG Production
, PFLNG Satu will produce 1.2 million tons of LNG annually over its 20-year design life. The facility’s topside consists of 22 modules that comprise gas treatment, liquefaction, storage and offloading systems. All of these systems have been installed on top of a hull that is longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall. The core of PFLNG Satu is a system that liquefies natural gas to minus 163 degrees Celsius using a new process that shrinks the LNG volume by up to 600 times. A two-row arrangement of eight membrane-type LNG cargo containment systems and two condensate storage tanks is located
Shell Adds Ultra-deepwater GofM Block to Perfido
hotel, or flotel, completed the commissioning and hook-up required to produce first oil. There are 22 direct vertical access wells from the spar, with capability for an additional 13 tieback wells from subsea completions in the area near the platform. The Perdido hull is nearly as tall as the Eiffel Tower and weighs the same as 10,000 large family cars
February 2025
