How to install platforms in tidal deltaic areas: The 25-year experience of Total in Kalimantan (Indonesia)
- Total Exploration Production, Paris (France)
- Total Indonesie, Jakarta (Indonesia)
Due to the extended work by TOTAL, since 1971, offshore and within the Mahakam delta (East Kalimantan), several installation and platform concepts have been used. The present paper only concerns the installations at Handil and Tambora sites located in the Mahakam delta (in-shore) where water depths are between 2 and 4 meters, water current is 2 knots max. and tide is 2 meters as an average. The experience gained by the company in this kind of job made it possible to recently install in a single piece large and heavy integrated decks (up to 2,600 t) with the optimum use of local skills, non-sophisticated technology and at low costs. The following shows the historical and evolutive experience of TOTAL up to now in platform concepts in this area of the world and gives, by the way, some useful information for future work.
- OSTI ID:
- 55723
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940230-; ISBN 0-7918-1264-2; TRN: IM9525%%404
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 13. international conference on offshore mechanics and Arctic engineering (OMAE-13), Houston, TX (United States), 27 Feb - 3 Mar 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of OMAE 1994. Volume 1: Offshore technology; Chakrabarti, S.K.; Morrison, D.; Williams, A.N.; Ertekin, R.C.; Maeda, Hisaaki; Pantazopoulos, M.S. [eds.]; PB: 492 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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