Eni Norge has informed that the Goliat platform has now been towed on board the Dockwise Vanguard, “the largest marine transport vessel in the world”.

According to Eni, the Goliat platform is the largest and most sophisticated cylindrical FPSO (Flotating production, storage and offloading) facility ever built. It was designed by the Norwegian company Sevan Marine in Arendal and built at the HHI yard in South Korea.

The Eni-operated Goliat field is the world’s northernmost offshore oil field, and the first oil field to come into production in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea.

The platform has been specially designed for the Arctic conditions of the Barents Sea and a number of innovations have been incorporated into its design to ensure safe and stable operations, Eni noted in the release.

On February 2, 2015, following the completion of a series of planned tests and trials, the FPSO was towed on board the Dockwise Vanguard which will now transport it on its long journey around the southern tip of Africa. Following some final preparations, it is expected to depart on its roughly 60-day journey in a couple of week’s time, and should arrive in Hammerfest by the middle of April. The platform will make a brief stop-over before being towed out to the Goliat field location. Tie-in operations and preparations for production will take place during the summer.

The platform will be supplied with electrical power from the mainland using the longest submarine cable of its type in the world. The field is planned to come on-stream in the middle of this year.

Facts about the Goliat FPSO:

• 107 metres in diameter (at process deck level)
• Production capacity: 100,000 barrels of oil per day
• Storage capacity: 1 million barrels
• Cabin capacity: 120 persons
• Lifeboat capacity: 240 persons
• No. of anchor lines: 14
• No. of wells: 22 (11 producers, 9 water injectors and 2 gas injectors)

Source: www.offshoreenergytoday.com

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