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Satah al-Razboot (SARB) Offshore Oil eld, Abu

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LOCATION OWNER PRODUCTION START

200km Abu CAPACITY OF
northwest Dhabi 100,000 PRODUCTION
of Abu National barrels 2016
Dhabi Oil per day
Company
(ADNOC)
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Satah al-Razboot (SARB) offshore oil eld is located

about 200km northwest of Abu Dhabi. The oil eld is
expected to add an additional 100,000 barrels per day of
oil to the overall oil production capacity of UAE upon
commissioning in 2016.
The sole owner of the eld is the Abu Dhabi National Oil
Company (ADNOC) with ADMA-APCO as the developer.
The front-end engineering and design (FEED) of the
project was carried out by Flour from 2009 to 2011. Up to
180 people were involved in the FEED phase of the
project.
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construction of two arti cial islands, to facilitate drilling

works for the extraction of crude oil from the eld.
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SARB offshore project details

The islands will serve as bases for
"The
drilling the oil eld and eliminate
offshore the use of offshore rigs. The
facilities will project will involve drilling of 86

oil wells. The offshore facilities
include two will include two riser platforms,
four are platforms, four
riser
interconnecting bridges, and a
platforms, single point mooring (SPM) buoy
located to the north of the
four are
onshore facility.
platforms,
Oil drilled from the wells will be
four transferred via a subsea pipeline
interconnectingto a new facility to be built on
Zirku Island for processing,
bridges, and storage and export. The
a single processing facility at Zirku Island
will have a capacity of 200,000
point barrels of oil per day.
mooring The processing facility will also
(SPM) buoy." is usingreceive
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oil from the neighbouring
Umm al-Lulu oil eld.
Infrastructure and
construction details of Satah
al-Razboot
The islands will be falcon shaped
and measure 500m each. The
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boundaries of the islands will be
project provided with shore protection
using concrete blocks.
Karan Gas The development of the islands

Field, Saudi will initially involve the
excavation of about 13 million
Arabia cubic metres of rock and
placement of 4.5 million cubic
The Karan gas
metres of ll to provide level
eld is located platforms for further
development. Up to 500 people
offshore of the
are expected to be involved in
Arabian Gulf in the dredging works for the
islands.
Saudi Arabian
territorial waters, The development of the islands

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cubic metres of material at a

depth of 21.5m using two

40m (131ft) to 60m
tandems.
(197ft).
The construction of the islands
and ancillary activities will make
use of equipment such as trailing
suction hopper dredgers, of oading and positioning
pontoons, crane pontoons, transport barges, and heavy
earth moving equipment.
Offshore developments will include the laying of 200km

of subsea pipelines, and 55km of subsea power and
communication cables.
The project also involves the laying of an onshore

pipeline measuring 3km long.
Key players involved with the

Satah al-Razboot offshore oil
eld development
The contract to carry out the mixed dredging and civil
engineering works for the two islands was awarded to
Dredging International and Middle East Dredging
Company (MEDCO).
The EPC contract for the islands was awarded to

Petrofac and Hyundai E&C (HDEC). The processing and
export facilities will be

constructed by
Hyundai, while the
"The EPC subsea connections and
drilling works will be
contract for
carried out by Petrofac.
the islands was
The contract awarded
awarded to to Petrofac is worth
Petrofac and $500m while the
contract awarded to
Hyundai E&C HDEC is worth $1.89bn.
(HDEC)." The contracts for the
construction of the
accommodation
buildings, administration buildings and associated
facilities on the two arti cial islands are yet to be
announced.
MEDCO and Dredging International subcontracted

Byrne Looby Partners (BLP) to provide support for the
design phase, project management, and supervision of
excavation and lling works for the process and tank
platform areas. BLP is also providing coastal engineering
services
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The early site preparation works for the Zirku Island is

being carried out by Archiredon.
The sub-contractor to carry out the ground

improvement works on the islands is NSCC Ground
Improvement, which is working in collaboration with
BetterGround.
Concrete Layer Innvoations (CLI) provided the armoured

land revetments for the arti cial islands.
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Subsea repair: re ning the process
By Chris Lo


Founded as Wimpey Laboratories in 1966,

FoundOcean has almost half a centurys experience
in subsea and offshore foundation grouting for the
global energy construction industries, while also
undertaking repair and maintenance, structural
inspections, pipeline and cable support and other
services.
Given FoundOceans position as a leading

subcontractor for risk minimisation in global
offshore construction projects, the companys
managing director Jim Bell is well placed to provide
insights into risk analysis and other aspects of
subsea offshore repair work. Offshore-
technology.com met Bell to discuss the challenges of
safety-intensive subsea operations and to nd out
about the companys recently-completed offshore
repair contract for Saipem America in the Gulf of
Mexico.
Rowan Watt-Pringle: How do you go about

minimising the risks of subsea repair work to
ensure an operation is completed safely and on
schedule?
Jim Bell: Risk minimisation is

"The real
about three things: rstly,

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there is the suitability and

preparation of the
equipment, for which

getting the
FoundOcean has long-
cement established procedures and
processes.
grout
delivered to The second point relates to
training and supervision; it is
the bag at imperative that the
greater personnel deployed are
highly con dent and have
depths." lots of experience.
FoundOcean undertakes
regular reviews and training to ensure that the
offshore team knows exactly what they are doing.
The third point is about planning. Our engineers

spend a signi cant amount of time on every project
planning for every eventuality; one thing you can be
sure of is that as soon as you attempt to undertake a
simple process underwater, it will become
complicated.
If something doesnt go quite to plan underwater,

then its obviously much more dif cult to recover
from than at the surface. For this reason, in our
training
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from these scenarios this combination of

experienced personnel and detailed planning is
absolutely key to minimising the risks involved, so

that if something unexpected occurs, it can be dealt
with as a matter of routine. You can have the
fanciest equipment in the world but if its not used in
the right way or if you dont have highly-skilled
personnel then you wont get anywhere.
RWP: What types of technology are involved in

overcoming the challenges faced during these
operations?
JB: The technology that we have in terms of

supporting pipelines in general is well established;
pipelines have been supported by divers since the
1970s, while we rst used remotely operated vehicles
[ROVs] to complete pipeline support instead of
divers 15 years ago for Exxon, offshore of California.
The Exxon job in 1998 wasnt in particularly deep

water; in the years since then we have been
developing, improving and re ning the ROV handling
and installation of grout bags, which are used to
support and stabilise sections of subsea pipeline.
RWP: Does working at greater depths signi cantly

increase the dif culties faced during the
installation ofthegrout
We use them to give you bags?
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JB: The support process itself for deep water

pipelines is no different; once youve got the bags
down there, the ROV operations are pretty much
identical to an ROV installation in much shallower
water.
The real challenge

is in actually
getting the cement
"Clients in the grout delivered to
the bag at greater
oil industry
depths. We have
tend to be managed to
overcome this
wary of radical
challenge by
new developing an
umbilical system
technology."
that allows us to
pump the cement
to that depth.
Another signi cant challenge comes in the cost of

the umbilical itself: if there was a blank cheque book
this could be approached quite easily using highly-
expensive umbilical technology, but this is obviously
rarely the case. However, by balancing performance
and
using cost, we
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to effectively deploy an umbilical system without

making the project uneconomical.
RWP: Do you foresee any potential technological

advances that could transform deep sea repair
operations in the future?
JB: I dont think well see any radical changes weve

developed and enhanced our capability over the last
15 or 20 years incrementally, by increasing the water
depth that were con dent working in step by step.
Our current maximum depth is about 1,500m;

because we are approaching potential projects
stepwise, at the moment we would be con dent in
offering only a couple of hundred metres beyond
that point and then, once thats proven, we may take
an additional further step.
Clients in the oil industry, certainly, tend to be wary

of radical new technology, so were always very keen
to show our customers that what theyre using is
already tried and tested. For this reason its more a
story of constant re nement and incremental
improvement, rather than ever being a major step
change.
One of these re nements comes in the form of some

recent improvements we have made to our umbilical
system,
We use them for
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RWP: Can you tell us a bit more about your recent

repair job for Saipem America in the Gulf of
Mexico?
JB: The project itself, at

"You can
750m, wasnt particularly
have the deep (at just half the depth to
fanciest which we have worked

effectively in the past) and it
equipment has to be said that it went off
in the world, without any problems at all;

it was a very smooth and
but if its not straightforward project that
used in the was completed as a matter of

routine, so none of these
right way contingency procedures Ive
then you mentioned were required.
wont get In terms of the work itself,

there were two parts to the
anywhere." operation. An 18-inch
pipeline had been damaged
by a vessels anchor that was dragging along the
seabed during bad weather, so the rst part of the
process was to install a clamp, using an ROV, around
the outside of the pipeline to reinstate the pipeline
itself.
The grout bag was installed after this to provide

additional support to the pipeline due to the extra
weight imposed on it by the clamp.
FoundOcean not only provided a cementing service

for the client, but also the full pipeline support and
cementing service as far as the grout bag was
concerned. A total of 28 tonnes of cement was used:
four tonnes for the clamp and 24 tonnes for the
fabric formwork grout bag.
RWP: Time is clearly an important factor for these

types of operations, due to the loss of productivity
when a pipeline is out of commission. What
timeframe were you working to in the Gulf?
JB: The total time working offshore was three days. A

lot of that time, however, was spent by the client
preparing the pipeline and installing the clamp and
so on. In terms of the amount of time FoundOcean
itself spent mixing and pumping grout, that was
completed in a matter of hours; possibly half a day.
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Satah al-Razboot (SARB) Offshore Oil eld, Abu

LOCATION OWNER PRODUCTION START

Offshore Technology is using cookies

Satah al-Razboot (SARB) offshore oil eld is located

SARB offshore project details

facilities will project will involve drilling of 86

Karan Gas The development of the islands

territorial waters, The development of the islands

depth of 21.5m using two

Offshore developments will include the laying of 200km

The project also involves the laying of an onshore

Key players involved with the

The EPC contract for the islands was awarded to

export facilities will be

MEDCO and Dredging International subcontracted

The early site preparation works for the Zirku Island is

The sub-contractor to carry out the ground

Concrete Layer Innvoations (CLI) provided the armoured

Fast Flow Pumps

Offshore Technology is using cookies

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Founded as Wimpey Laboratories in 1966,

Given FoundOceans position as a leading

Rowan Watt-Pringle: How do you go about

Jim Bell: Risk minimisation is

about three things: rstly,

challenge is all cookies on this website.

equipment, for which

The third point is about planning. Our engineers

If something doesnt go quite to plan underwater,

absolutely key to minimising the risks involved, so

RWP: What types of technology are involved in

JB: The technology that we have in terms of

The Exxon job in 1998 wasnt in particularly deep

RWP: Does working at greater depths signi cantly

JB: The support process itself for deep water

The real challenge

Another signi cant challenge comes in the cost of

to effectively deploy an umbilical system without

RWP: Do you foresee any potential technological

JB: I dont think well see any radical changes weve

Our current maximum depth is about 1,500m;

Clients in the oil industry, certainly, tend to be wary

One of these re nements comes in the form of some

RWP: Can you tell us a bit more about your recent

JB: The project itself, at

fanciest which we have worked

in the world, without any problems at all;

used in the was completed as a matter of

then you mentioned were required.

wont get In terms of the work itself,

The grout bag was installed after this to provide

FoundOcean not only provided a cementing service

RWP: Time is clearly an important factor for these

JB: The total time working offshore was three days. A

Offshore re safety design:

Space safety at sea: Nasas

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