Welaptega Marine has been awarded a mooring inspection and “fitness for purpose evaluation” on Dhirubhai-1 floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) facility located in the Bay of Bengal, off the eastern coast of India.
The client is Aker Floating Production.
“ This is a comprehensive fitness for purpose evaluation of the facility’s mooring system ,” said Tony Hall, CEO of Welaptega.
A team of specialist engineers will deploy Welaptega’s suite of visualization and inspection technologies including the High-Definition 3D Video (HD3DV), 3D Modeling (3DM), Optical Chain Measurement System (CMS), Subsea Chain Measurement Caliper and the Rope Measurement System (RMS).
Spot checks on moorings not enough
“ The offshore oil and gas industry is moving towards a realization that spot checks on moorings do not provide enough data on critical failure points. This is why we need comprehensive mooring inspections like this one. ”
Welaptega will work with offshore engineering firm BPP-TECH in the UK to establish the Fitness for Purpose Evaluation using data on operational history, met-ocean conditions, design, installation and maintenance of the mooring spread.
The inspection of the FPSO’s mooring system is a rolling annual program in which three mooring lines will be inspected on the facility in each year.
FPSO Dhirubhai-1 is a converted oil tanker operating at 1200m water depth with a production capacity of 60,000 bpd. It is on contract to Reliance Industries Ltd. until 2018.
Welaptega Marine is a DNV, Lloyds Register and ABS approved service provider with a 15-year history of providing high quality, repeatable in-service inspection services on permanently installed mooring systems for clients in the UK, Norway, US, West Africa and Australia.
[mappress] Welaptega, January 16, 2013