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Tuesday, July 4, 2017
In its bid to move forward the the development of resources disccovered offshore Senegal, Cairn Energy selected Lloyd’s Register (LR) to provide project management and technical assistance in their extensive SNE field development surveys.
The contract will use LR’s specialist geophysical and geotechnical expertise in a site investigation campaign that will use two vessels to survey and investigate an area of more than 400 sq km in the Sangomar Offshore and Sangomar Deep Offshore licenses.
Offshore operations are expected to take place between June and September 2017. The geophysical, shallow geotechnical and environmental site survey will assist the planning and engineering of the facilities needed to develop the field. LR will ensure optimum information on seabed and sub-seabed conditions are provided to enable the safe, secure and efficient design and installation of facilities, identify and investigate the relevant seabed areas and shallow soil zones; and assess the location for the presence of potentially important seabed habitats.
Its specialist teams will also cover the geotechnical site investigation to help Cairn develop suitable arrangements for their subsea production system, from drill centers connected via flowlines and umbilicals, to the FPSO, and provide information relating to an export pipeline route to shore. LR has provided support to Cairn over the past two years for their SNE field development. This includes a metocean study, a regional geo-hazard assessment desk study, a seabed and shallow soils ground model, and a continental shelf regional study for export pipeline routes. The company has also been instrumental in providing Cairn with assistance on evaluating the technical capability of survey contractors and tender responses prior to selection of the contractor for the survey and site investigation campaign. LR’s Well Engineering team are also supporting Cairn and their partners in the significant multi-well appraisal drilling campaign off Senegal, with the provision of staff and services.
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