OCEAN INSTALLER: Offshore Projects Executed Flawlessly
In a little over a decade, Ocean Installer has built up within the marine construction and operations field an enviable, proven track record in successfully delivering large and complex subsea projects in challenging environments, with more than 100 already under its belt across the globe and a steady pipeline of future endeavours.
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From headquarters in Stavanger and offices in Oslo, Houston, Aberdeen, and Dubai, since inception in 2011 Ocean Installer has navigated the changing and challenging industry landscape of marine construction and complex project execution, expanding globally and developing skilled teams, entering new markets and bringing both competences and experience to the oil and gas and renewables market.
“We are a flexible organisation,” Ocean Installer outlines, “characterised by direct lines of communication and swift decision-making processes. Everything we do is underpinned by quality, efficiency, and safety – our foundations – and we are committed to achieving a high degree of quality in all of Ocean Installer’s services and activities.”
ANGOLA AWARDS
At Ocean Installer, it all comes down to the value of being collaborative, adaptable, reliable, and energetic, which go on to spell out its ethos of care – about safety, about people and about the environment. “We believe in the value of teamwork,” the organisation expands, “and recognise that we work in a dynamic industry and live in a time of transition. We are nimble and agile and we keep decision-lines short, and adapt to our environment.
“We are experts in our field, dependable and we deliver robust solutions to complex problems. We use our energy to move projects forward and thrive in challenging conditions and we are empowered to move fast.”
Set to utilise in-house expertise to project manage, engineer, and execute the project, Ocean Installer has, in consortium with Oceaneering, been awarded a significant contract from TotalEnergies EP Angola to undertake transportation and installation work at the Girassol field life extension (GIR FLEX) project, part of the operator’s program to extend the life of the FPSO, which has been producing since 2001, to 2031.
The scope of the contract, said to be the second-largest in the company’s history, includes the recovery of old risers, installation of ten replacement risers and a gas lift umbilical. It also encompasses in-country fabrication and assembly of permanent equipment, alongside comprehensive topsides support and a modification campaign.
“The GIR FLEX replacement project is our most significant project award from TotalEnergies to-date,” expressed Ocean Installer CEO Kevin Murphy. “This reflects the continued faith that TotalEnergies has placed in us, with several project awards since 2015.
“This award further enhances our strong track record in complex, production critical offshore projects for the West African market, while I am also delighted that we have secured our second project in Angola.”
A second participation on TotalEnergies EP Angola projects last year came via an umbilical recovery and reinstallation scope on the Pazflor FPSO as the main subcontractor. “The fact that TotalEnergies again places production critical operations with us represents the trust our clients have in our abilities,” Murphy enthused.
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TRUSTED EXPERTISE
Equinor was another major player to demonstrate absolute faith in Ocean Installer via a suite of project awards in 2023, with the third having been sealed before the close of August. The Subsea Lines Modification (SLM) Project 2023-2025 award constitutes riser replacements at Visund, Vigdis, Åsgard fields, with engineering immediately underway.
In addition, the scope includes one MORGRIP campaign, using Equinor’s pipeline repair system, connecting the shore section from the CO2 receiving terminal in Øygarden with the offshore section of the new the new northern Lights pipeline, Norway’s first licence for CO2 storage on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and a major part of the initiative that the Norwegian government is calling ‘Longship’.
“We are pleased to see that Equinor continue to put their trust in us for executing these highly complex offshore operations,” Murphy underlined. “The Northern Lights CO2 Pipeline scope further demonstrates that our marine construction competence is transferrable to renewables projects – expanding our addressable market.
“It is great to see that Equinor and its partners continue to develop and invest in the Norwegian Continental Shelf,” Murphy added in October at the award of an EPCI contract for the Eirin subsea tie-back development, with an option for a new gas solution from Troll B via the existing Kvitebjørn export pipeline. “They once again put their trust in Ocean Installer to help them realise fast track projects like Eirin and potentially Troll B Gas Export.”
“We will be the trusted partner for complex projects in challenging environments,” Ocean Installer vows of what is to come for this quickly established industry giant. “We will use our specialist expertise and collaborative approach to unlock energy, in all its forms, from the global oceans.
“We are proud of our history and we have an impressive track record for safe and efficient marine construction of major energy projects worldwide. With over 100 projects executed to date, whatever the Energy Transition has in store, Ocean Installer will be there to support our clients’ project needs.”