SPT Offshore Installs 9 Suction Piles for Bibby at Ithaca Athena (UK)

SPT Offshore installed 9 Suction piles for Bibby Offshore for Ithaca Athena FPSO mooring.

For Bibby Offshore, SPT installed nine (9) suction piles of OD 5.5-6.5m x 10-11m deep. The suction piles will be used to moor the Ithaca Athena FPSO in 140m water depth.

SPT’s strong SAPS-004 suction pump was used. Actual suction time was only 30 minutes per suction pile.

The SAPS-004 suction pump was docked subsea using the ROV. Release was also accomplished following installation by remotely control and monitored by ROV.

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Source: SPT Offshore, September 27, 2011;  Image:Ithaca Energy