SPT Completes Ophir WHP Installation
Wednesday 12 April 2017
Dutch contractor SPT Offshore has completed installation of the wellhead platform for the Ophir development on the eponymous field off Malaysia.
SPT said the operation to lift three structures was completed in “record-breaking” time on Tuesday.
The offshore contractor used the Sea Aaryan heavy-lift vessel to firstly install the jacket on Sunday, with the boat-landing module also installed on the same day.
The topsides were then hoisted on the jacket on Tuesday and installed “within a few hours”, SPT said.
The 350-tonne platform left the Muhibbah Engineering yard at Port Klang in late March for the field, which is being developed via three production wells, the wellhead platform and a floating production, storage and offloading vessel.
It was reported in late February that Malaysian contractor MTC Engineering has bought an oil tanker - Puteri Bangsa - for conversion into the MTC Ledang FPSO for the project.
The FPSO will have a small process facility module with capacity for 15,000 barrels of fluids per day and gas flaring and will be capable of storing up to 350,000 barrels of oil.
It will be connected to a wellhead platform via a flexible eight-inch pipeline.
Output at the $90 million Ophir development is expected in the second half of the year.
The Ophir oilfield is being developed under a risk service contract. The co-owners are Octanex (50%), along with Malaysian companies Scomi Energy (30%) and Vestigo Petroleum (20%).