Clair Ridge Quarters Utility Jacket Leaves Kvaerner Verdal Yard

Norwegian Kvaerner yard this morning held a sail away ceremony for yet another jacket built for an oil industry client.

The 9.400 tonnes Quarters Utility jacket, loaded on a Heerema-owned barge, will be deployed at the Clair Ridge project in the UK, on its location west of the Shetland Islands.

“This marks the end of the Clair Ridge two jackets project in Verdal, which was completed less than 34 months after the contract was signed,” said the Verdal-based company in a statement.

“During the assembly process 600 workers have worked hard to get all the pieces together.”

To remind, Kvaerner last month delivered the Clair Ridge Drilling & Production jacket of 23 000 tonnes – the biggest jacket ever built the  yard.

BP has described Clair Ridge as its most significant current project on the UK continental shelf. It will be developed around the latest technologies to enhance oil recovery and improve operating efficiency. The two new platforms are scheduled to be installed in 2015 with production expected to begin in 2016. The new development will have potential peak production of up to 120,000 barrels of oil per day.