20 February 2008
Doha, Qatar - Qatargas recently achieved another major project milestone with the installation of the second of three new wellhead platform topsides in the North Field, 80 kilometres offshore of Qatar.
The QW4 platform topsides was installed safely and without incident on February 9th in a multi-hour operation which involved the use of a special heavy lift crane, NPCC's HLS 2000, that is capable of lifting up to 2500 tonnes.
The topsides, which weighed approximately 2200 tonnes, was carefully positioned above the legs of the previously installed jacket structure and successfully lowered over the ten pre-drilled wells onto the jacket.
Mr Faisal M. Al Suwaidi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Qatargas said; "Qatargas 2 is a project made up of many large projects within a project. This milestone takes the project one step closer to completion. I would like to thank all the parties involved - our staff, and contractors NPCC and Technip - for their dedication to seeing this job completed safely."
Following installation of the topsides the offshore Mechanical Completion work campaign begins, which leads to handover of the Facilities to Qatargas 2 Operations for final Start-Up. The offshore Facilities will supply the gas for the two 7.8 million tonne per annum liquefied natural gas processing trains currently under construction onshore in Ras Laffan City.
The two platform topsides installed to date were built at NPCC's fabrication yard in Abu Dhabi, which has achieved outstanding safety performance throughout all phases of the project.
The shareholders in Qatargas 2 are Qatar Petroleum, Exxon Mobil and Total.
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Doha, Qatar - Qatargas recently achieved another major project milestone with the installation of the second of three new wellhead platform topsides in the North Field, 80 kilometres offshore of Qatar.
The QW4 platform topsides was installed safely and without incident on February 9th in a multi-hour operation which involved the use of a special heavy lift crane, NPCC's HLS 2000, that is capable of lifting up to 2500 tonnes.
The topsides, which weighed approximately 2200 tonnes, was carefully positioned above the legs of the previously installed jacket structure and successfully lowered over the ten pre-drilled wells onto the jacket.
Mr Faisal M. Al Suwaidi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Qatargas said; "Qatargas 2 is a project made up of many large projects within a project. This milestone takes the project one step closer to completion. I would like to thank all the parties involved - our staff, and contractors NPCC and Technip - for their dedication to seeing this job completed safely."
Following installation of the topsides the offshore Mechanical Completion work campaign begins, which leads to handover of the Facilities to Qatargas 2 Operations for final Start-Up. The offshore Facilities will supply the gas for the two 7.8 million tonne per annum liquefied natural gas processing trains currently under construction onshore in Ras Laffan City.
The two platform topsides installed to date were built at NPCC's fabrication yard in Abu Dhabi, which has achieved outstanding safety performance throughout all phases of the project.
The shareholders in Qatargas 2 are Qatar Petroleum, Exxon Mobil and Total.
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