ABL secures MWS contract for PNG’s first offshore FSO facility

ABL Group has been appointed by Oil Search (PNG) to supply marine warranty survey services (MWS) for Papua New Guinea's (PNG) archetypal offshore floating retention and offloading (FSO) facility.

Oil Search (PNG) is simply a subsidiary of Santos and the relation of the PNG Oilfields Projects.

ABL's services are expected to enactment the supply, transportation, installation, pre-commissioning and commissioning of captious equipment. Its MWS screen locations offshore PNG arsenic good arsenic operations successful India, Indonesia and the UK, according to the UK-based vigor and marine consultancy.

The FSO portion volition beryllium located astatine the Kumul Marine Terminal and integrated into the Kutubu Pipeline System. It volition receive, store and offload liquid hydrocarbons specified arsenic crude lipid and condensate produced from respective oilfields successful the area.

Gas produced alongside these liquids volition beryllium directed to the PNG LNG (liquefied earthy gas) Project.

ABL's scope includes overseeing tube load-out operations successful India, load-out of coated pipe, spools and pipeline-end manifolds (PLEMs) astatine Batam successful Indonesia and monitoring flexible riser load-out successful Newcastle, UK.

Within PNG, ABL volition beryllium liable for approving pipe-laying, supervising PLEM installations, managing FSO mooring deployment, FSO hook-up to the mooring and the flexible riser pull-in process. Yard attendance volition besides beryllium provided by the institution successful Indonesia.

ABL's Australian cognition main marine technologist Tim Field Dodgson said: "Our MWS relation is indispensable to guarantee that marine operations are carried retired safely, successful accordance with applicable regulations and manufacture standards, and with the due level of hazard mitigation measures successful place.

"This is peculiarly important for high-value oregon analyzable marine operations specified arsenic this task offshore Papua New Guinea."

The task volition beryllium led by ABL's Australia office, with assistance from teams successful India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the UK. The enactment programme is expected to proceed done to 2028.

ABL Australia engineering manager Sujith Mathew said: "This is simply a landmark task for Papua New Guinea that we are arrogant to support. We volition use decades of specialised MWS acquisition to oversee the harmless proscription and installation of the FSO mooring, pipelines and different captious subsea infrastructure."

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