Petrojarl Foinaven -- A West of Shetland challenge

Conference · Tue Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:433914

Boerresen, R; Krafft, H

The Foinaven field was first discovered in late 1992. The field will produce oil for the partners BP and Shell in 1996. The owners laid out a commercial strategy in line with the CRINE initiative for the field development. The Field will be produced by a Production Ship, hooked up to the subsea production system via flexible risers and umbilicals. The 300,000 barrels storage capacity ship, Petrojarl Foinaven, will be turret moored in the field. The technical challenges in the Production Ship design have been closely related to the field location in the Atlantic Ocean west of Shetlands. Here the water depth is 500 meters, and the weather is blessed with a climate harsher than the North Sea (e.g., the 100 year wave is some 18 meter significant). The ship solution has been designed by Golar-Nor Offshore, and is being built by Astano shipyard, with a McDermott Engineering oil process design. The ship is owned and operated by Golar-Nor Offshore under a lease agreement with the field operator BP. This presentation will address aspects of the Production Ship design, being one element at the Foinaven Field development. The other element is the subsea system described in another paper in this conference.

• OSTI ID: 433914
• Report Number(s): CONF-960525--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

02 PETROLEUM
42 ENGINEERING
ATLANTIC OCEAN
CONSTRUCTION
DESIGN
OFFSHORE PLATFORMS
OIL FIELDS
RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
SHIPS