Houston-based Helix Vitality Options Group, Inc. has secured a deepwater properly intervention contract award from Esso Exploration and Manufacturing Nigeria (Deepwater) Ltd.
The undertaking, positioned offshore Nigeria within the Erha and Usan fields, is predicted to start in September with the vessel anticipated to be in Nigeria till 2025, Helix mentioned in a information launch Monday. The fields are positioned roughly 60.3 miles (97 kilometers) offshore Nigeria in water depths starting from 2297 to 4921 toes (700 to 1,500 meters).
Underneath the contract, Helix will present the Q4000, a DP3 riser-based semi-submersible properly intervention vessel, a 10k Intervention Riser System (IRS), remotely operated automobiles, undertaking administration, and engineering providers to cowl totally built-in properly intervention providers from manufacturing enhancement to plug and abandonment, the corporate mentioned. The monetary particulars of the contract weren’t disclosed.
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In line with Helix, the Q4000 “supplies a world-class offshore platform for a various array of duties corresponding to subsea properly intervention, subject and properly decommissioning, subsea gear set up and restoration, properly testing, and emergency properly containment with devoted service areas to extend security and vessel effectivity”.
“We’re desirous to strengthen our relationship with Esso and to additional set up our presence because the chief for properly intervention providers in West Africa”, Helix Govt Vice President and COO Scotty Sparks mentioned.
Additional Contract Extensions
In the meantime, Helix prolonged its decommissioning contract with Trident Vitality do Brasil Ltda. For a further 12 months, in direct continuation of its present contract.
The extension is predicted to start within the fourth quarter of 2024 at charges consistent with the improved properly intervention market, Helix mentioned in a separate information launch. The monetary particulars weren’t disclosed.
The unique contract began in late 2022 offshore Brazil within the Campos Basin and makes use of the Siem Helix 1 riser-based properly intervention vessel and a 10K Intervention Riser System. Helix supplies totally built-in plug and abandonment properly providers by its Subsea Providers Alliance associate SLB in addition to undertaking administration and engineering providers.
Helix and Siem Offshore signed six-year constitution extensions for each Siem Helix vessels, with the Siem Helix 1 time period extending to December 2030 and the Siem Helix 2 time period extending to December 2031, in accordance with the discharge.
The Siem Helix vessels are purpose-built superior properly intervention vessels able to performing a variety of subsea providers together with manufacturing enhancement, properly decommissioning, subsea set up, offshore crane and Remotely Operated Car (ROV) operations, offshore building and emergency response, Helix outlined.
The Helix Producer I (HPI) contract has additionally been prolonged by one 12 months to June 1, 2025, the corporate mentioned. Since 2016, the HPI, a ship-shaped dynamically positioned (DP2) floating manufacturing unit, has been positioned at Inexperienced Canyon Block 237 producing oil and fuel by the prevailing Phoenix Area subsea infrastructure. The vessel is designed to provide hydrocarbons and export them to shore by way of pipeline or tanker.
“We’re happy to announce that Helix has efficiently executed these contract extensions, reflective of enhancing market situations and elevated demand for Helix’s belongings and providers”, Sparks mentioned.
Helix Vitality Options describes itself as a global offshore vitality providers firm that gives specialty providers to the offshore vitality business, with a concentrate on properly intervention, robotics and full subject decommissioning operations.
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