In an announcement despatched to Rigzone on Tuesday, Saipem confirmed that an incident occurred on the Castorone pipelay vessel offshore Australia “early this morning”.
The occasion occurred “throughout regular pipelaying operations”, in keeping with the assertion, which famous that the incident didn’t trigger accidents to personnel.
“Localized injury to the trunkline was sustained which might be remediated. The Castorone vessel didn’t maintain any main damages,” Saipem stated within the assertion.
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“The well being and security of our personnel, of the atmosphere, and our belongings is a high precedence for Saipem,” it added.
A truth sheet on Castorone accessible on Saipem’s web site dubs the vessel as “the flagship of Saipem’s fleet” and describes it as “some of the environment friendly pipelaying vessels within the offshore trade, because of its excessive manufacturing charge and the potential to put in shallow to ultra-deep waters in S-lay configuration”.
The vessel has an total size of 325 meters, an operational draft as much as 10.6 meters, and lodging for as much as 702 folks, in keeping with the very fact sheet, which notes that “Castorone is among the greatest pipelaying vessels on the earth and essentially the most technologically superior”.
In January 2022, Saipem revealed that it had been awarded two offshore contracts in Australia and Guyana value a complete quantity of $1.1 billion. The primary of these was associated to the Scarborough venture and comprised the completion of export trunkline coating and the set up of the pipeline that connects the Scarborough fuel area with the onshore plant, Saipem outlined on the time.
The work assigned to Saipem was related to coating, transportation, and set up of the trunkline, at a most water depth of 1,400 meters, together with the fabrication and set up of the road buildings and of the pipeline finish termination in 950-meter water depth, Saipem stated again in January 2022. The corporate added on the time that offshore operations have been deliberate to start out in mid-2023 and could be primarily performed by the Castorone vessel.
Woodside’s Scarborough Vitality Challenge is positioned 233 miles off the Pilbara coast of Western Australia, Woodside’s web site highlights. In response to the corporate, Scarborough will present hundreds of jobs and provide dependable vitality to Australia and the world. It’ll help the vitality transition and assist neighboring Asian international locations take motion on emissions discount, Woodside’s web site provides.
In January 2023, Saipem introduced that it had been awarded a contract by Equinor for the Irpa pipeline venture offshore Norway. The venture consists of the set up of a 50 mile lengthy swagged Pipe-in-Pipe pipeline connecting the subsea manufacturing template of Irpa to the present Aasta Hansteen platform, Saipem outlined on the time.
Offshore operations are deliberate to happen in 2025 and might be carried out by Castorone, Saipem revealed in January final yr.
In November 2023, Saipem introduced that it had been awarded a contract by ExxonMobil’s subsidiary ExxonMobil Guyana Restricted for “the proposed Whiptail oilfield improvement positioned within the Stabroek block offshore Guyana”. Saipem famous on the time that its scope of labor consists of the design, fabrication and set up of subsea buildings, risers, flowlines, and umbilicals for a big subsea manufacturing facility.
Saipem stated in November that it’s going to carry out operations utilizing its “state-of-the-art vessels FDS2, Constellation, and Castorone”.
Saipem describes itself as a world chief within the engineering and building of main tasks for the vitality and infrastructure sectors, each offshore and onshore. It’s current in additional than 50 international locations around the globe and employs about 30,000 folks, in keeping with its web site.
The corporate has eight fabrication yards and an offshore fleet of 23 building vessels, of which 21 are owned and two are owned by third events and managed by Saipem, and 15 drilling rigs, of which eight are owned, Saipem’s web site highlights.
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