Balltec Clinches Tubular Bells Gig

Balltec Ltd, Morecambe,UK, has been contracted by Houston Offshore to supply and install 10 off MoorLOK subsea mooring connectors for the Tubular Bells project, located in the Mississippi Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico.

The contract covers the manufacture of 10 off 15,000kN MoorLOK connectors for the mooring of the Williams floating production system (FPS), Gulfstar GS1 on the Tubular Bells field at a water depth of 4,500 feet. The connectors will be manufactured in accordance with the ABS Guide for the Certification of Offshore Mooring Chain, 2009, and are due to be installed during the first half of 2013.

Sales and Marketing Director at Balltec Ltd Martin Bell said:

"Balltec is proud to have been awarded this significant mooring connector contract. The Tubular Bells project has been under development for some time and we are very much looking forward to working with Houston Offshore Engineering and Williams to play our part in bringing this project to first oil."

Managing Director at Balltec Ltd Russell Benson said:

"The award of the Tubular Bells mooring connector package is another significant contract gain in 2012. With Tubular Bells and several other projects due to be completed next year as well as new products ready to be launched, 2013 is going to be another exciting year for Balltec."

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First Tubular on Hejre Jacket Completed

Almost precisely one year after DONG Energy awarded the Hejre main EPC contract to Technip France, the first tubular for the Hejre jacket was completed.

This happened on Feb. 26 of this year at the SIF group in Roermond in the Netherlands. Technip has subcontracted the construction work to the Heerema Vlissingen yard in south of the Netherlands.

Heerema and its suppliers - German and Dutch specialist companies are to deliver more than 7.000 tonnes of steel plates and tubulars which all in the end shall become the Hejre jacket.

This prefabrication work will continue nonstop until July 2013. By that time, 12 large main leg components, each about 98 feet (30 meters) long, will arrive at coastal Vlissingen, in the Netherlands, by barge. Remaining tubular components will arrive in parallel by road transport.

'We have now begun the actual construction of the jacket for the Hejre platform precisely one year after the contract with Technip was signed, and now the project really picks up momentum,' says Arild Wilson, Hejre project director at DONG Energy.

Weight will be 8,818 tons (8,000 tonnes).

Heerema will at its yard in Vlissingen assemble, roll up and complete the jacket before load out on a barge and finally transportation by sea to the Hejre field in the North Sea in 2014.

DONG Energy is operator of the Hejre field and owns 60 percent of the license. Bayerngas is partner and owns 40 percent.

The Hejre field expectedly contains 100 million barrels of oil and 565 billion cubic feet (16 billion cubic meters) of natural gas in recoverable reserves.

Approximately 1,000 people are busy with developing, designing and constructing the Hejre platform and related work ahead of 2015.

The field development is expected to create close to 500 permanent jobs, the major part in Esbjerg on the Danish west coast.

The field is HPHT - High Pressure/High Temperature. In concrete figures the pressure in the reservoir is at 1,010 bar and the temperature at 160 degrees Celsius.

When Hejre starts producing in late 2015, DONG Energy will be co-owner of six Danish fields in production, eight Norwegian fields and two British fields.

DONG's ambition is to double oil and gas production to 150,000 barrels of oil equivalents per day in 2020. The production is to come from oil and gas fields in Denmark, Norway and UK.

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