Significant FPSO Progress

Liza Destiny: Plans are on target

From getting the FPSO vessel into drydock to fabrication of the suction pile mooring system, everyone’s efforts are ramping up to keep the Liza Destiny sail-away on track.

The FPSO is expected to leave Singapore in July 2019 for two months at sea before arrival in the offshore field location in Guyana in September.

Take a moment to read how close work between SBM, Keppel Shipyard and Dyna-Mac is bringing demonstrable progress.

FPSO contractor, SBM Offshore, hasn’t missed a beat as its engineering teams in Schiedam, The Netherlands and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia support construction. Strong coordination is one of the main reasons behind their continued success.

SBM’s procurement group remains laser-focused on its objectives as well. It has continued to deliver equipment packages and materials to both the Dyna-Mac module fabrication yard and the Keppel shipyard.

SBM’s site construction team has utilized their trademark collaboration skills to complete receptacle fit-up solutions for dry dock and progress extensive integration plans with Keppel.

How to dock a giant

ExxonMobil brought several teams together – Oil States Industries, TechnipFMC, Saipem, SBM, ExxonMobil Project Management Team (FPSO, SURF and Installation) – at a workshop to prepare for the FPSO second dry dock activities.

Moving a vessel that’s the size and scale of the Liza Destiny FPSO into the Tuas dry dock at the Keppel shipyard takes incredible skill – and it’s all beautifully captured in this video.

Liza Destiny weighs in at 50,000 tons and is 330m long and 60m wide. The dry dock is 63m wide, so it took pinpoint accuracy and coordination from the FPSO and tugboat captains and shipyard coordinator to position and finally dry-dock the vessel safely.

The port side of the vessel underwent planned work in March, so it had to be positioned closely to one side of the dry dock to allow space for repairs and additions to start on the starboard side.

And that’s not the only jaw-dropping footage from the Keppel shipyard. You can see how work continued on the main deck in this fascinating time-lapse video. Work at Dry Dock 2 will be ongoing until early November.

Final hang-off assemblies were delivered by Oil States Industries to the Keppel shipyard for integration during Dry Dock #2 on to the FPSO hull.

Weld-beating fabrication

At the Dyna-Mac fabrication yard, down the street from the Keppel shipyard in Singapore, work continued on the topsides for the Liza FPSO.

Having completed blast and paint on all 12 modules, they’re ready for further outfitting with piping installation, cable tray installation and cable pulling across all disciplines.

These videos show how some of the major lifts of the high-pressure separator were completed at Dyna-Mac, along with one of the gas turbine generators (GTG’s) installed on one of the two Power Generation modules.