StabFrame Subsea Pile Guiding Frame Deployed Offshore Brazil

摘要

The first offshore pile installation operation with the StabFrame, a sub-sea pile-stabilizing template, has been successfully completed in the OGX Waimea field in Brazil's Campos Basin, joint developers Large Diameter Drilling Ltd. (Cornwall, England) and MENCK GmbH (Kaltenkirchen, Germany) announced in February.The operation was carried out in association with a contract that was awarded to MENCK by Wellstream International Ltd. (London, England), the main contractor for OGX PetroleO e Gas (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) on the Waimea development. The contract required MENCK to drive 10 84-inch mooring piles in water depths up to 140 meters, using its MHU 500T hydraulic hammer. The piles were for installing an FPSO mooring system.