New Shah Deniz 2 Jacket Sets Sail
Thursday 16 March 2017
The second jacket set for the BP-led consortium’s Shah Deniz 2 gas field development in Azerbaijan’s section of the Caspian Sea has sailed away from a local yard.
The quarters and utilities (QU) jacket left the Heydar Aliyev Baku Deepwater Jackets facility on the STB-1 barge on Wednesday, BP said.
The jacket, which weighs around 12,084 tonnes and will be installed in a water depth of 95 metres, was completed on 20 February, ahead of schedule.
It was built by a consortium comprising Saipem, BOS Shelf and Star Gulf.
It is expected to take 75 days for transportation, launch, positioning, pile installation and final completion work of the jacket on the Shah Deniz field.
It follows the sailaway of the first jacket for Shah Deniz 2 – the 13,500-tonne jacket for the production and risers platform – in late August. That unit was also built at the same facility and transported on the STB-1 barge.
The 105-metre high jacket contains 12 production risers, three export risers and a dedicated monoethylene glycol import riser.
The Shah Deniz 2 project, located 90 kilometres off Azerbaijan in water depths ranging from 75 to 550 metres, is being developed by the BP-led Shah Deniz consortium and remains on schedule for first gas in 2018.
The Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in December it is providing $1 billion in financing to the Southern Gas Corridor (SCG) project to expand Shah Deniz 2. The total expansion project is set to top $26 billion.
Partners in Shah Deniz alongside the UK supermajor include state giant Socar, Lukoil of Russia and Malaysia’s Petronas.