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News Release from: Aker Kvaerner Oil and Gas
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 02 March 2007
Verdal yard wins 34th jacket
construction contract
In a planned BP contract Aker Kvaerner Verdal will procure, fabricate, load-out and sea-fasten the steel jacket substructure and piles for the Valhall Re-Development Project in the North Sea
BP has entered into final clarifications with Aker Kvaerner, with a view to awarding a contract for the steel substructure to the Valhall Re-Development Project in the North Sea Contract award is subject to the partners deciding to proceed, and governmental approval of the plan for development and operation (PDO)
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 17 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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This PDO will be submitted to the authorities at the end of first quarter 2007.
The contract value is approximately NOK 450 million.
The contract will be executed by the fabrication yard Aker Kvaerner Verdal in Mid-Norway, and includes procurement, fabrication, load-out and sea-fastening of the steel jacket substructure and piles for fastening the jacket to the seabed.
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The fabrication will start at Aker Kvaerner Verdal at the turn of the year, and the project will reach its peak manpower of approximate 300 personnel in June 2008.
The main reason for developing a new field centre at the Valhall is the subsidence of the existing field centre and the need to operate more efficiently.
The new centre will consist of an integrated processing and housing platform, which will become operative in 2010.
The jacket will be installed one year ahead of this.
With the new platform in place, the Valhall field will probably continue on stream until 2050.
The Valhall Re-Development jacket will be number 34 in the series of jackets delivered from Aker Kvaerner Verdal.
The yard has over the last 20 years more or less continuously had project execution of jackets.
"The continuity in fabricating jacket structures combined with efficiency improving year by year has resulted in a very streamlined and efficient project execution model, and has made it possible to win orders against tough international competition", says Bjornar Skjevik, President of Aker Kvaerner Verdal.
Aker Kvaerner Verdal is currently building the Blind Faith hull for Chevron in USA.
This project will be delivered in the second quarter 2007, and will be connected to the topside in shallow water outside Corpus Christi, Texas during summer 2007.
VALHALL FACTS.
The Valhall field is situated in approximately 75 metres of water, to the south of the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, close to the Danish sector, and is being developed by BP Norge (as operator) together with its partners, Hess Norge, Shell Norge and Total E and P Norge.
The steel jacket substructure dimensions are:.
Height : 106 meters.
Weight : appr 7.500 tonnes.
Piles : appr 4.000 tonnes.
Start fabrication : December 2007 / January 2008.
Delivery : Spring 2009.
Contract : PC (Procurement and Construction).
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