Energy and marine consultancy ABL, part of Oslo-listed global consultancy group Aqualis, has landed a new installation job with Oil Search (PNG), a subsidiary of Australia’s Santos, for a floating storage and offloading (FSO) unit off the coast of Papua New Guinea.
ABL has secured an agreement with Oil Search, as the operator of the PNG oilfields projects, to provide services linked to a new FSO facility, including marine warranty survey services (MWS) offshore Papua New Guinea and support the supply, transportation, installation, pre-commissioning and commissioning of vital equipment at international locations.
The company explains that this FSO will be the country’s first offshore floating facility, which will be deployed at the Kumul marine terminal as part of the Kutubu pipeline system. The unit is expected to play a critical role in the storage and offloading of liquid hydrocarbons, including crude oil and condensate, produced from various fields, while the associated gas is fed into the PNG LNG project.
Sujith Mathew, Engineering Manager at ABL in Australia, commented: “This is a landmark project for Papua New Guinea that we are proud to support. We will apply decades of specialised MWS experience to oversee the safe transportation and installation of the FSO mooring, pipelines and other vital subsea infrastructure.”
ABL’s MWS scope encompasses overseeing pipe load-out operations in India, load-out of coated pipe, spools and pipeline-end manifolds (PLEM) at Batam in Indonesia, and flexible riser load-out in Newcastle, UK.