Aibel Ships 2nd Module For Heidrun Platform

Leading Norwegian field services firm Aibel announced on July 23 that its second and final module for the Heidrun platform had been dispatched, as part of the development of the Dvalin gas field.

The Stavanger-based company delivered its first module for the platform, the 577-metric ton (mt) H25, in the spring of last year. In a statement this week, it said its second 3,500-mt module M40 had been launched from its yard in Haugesund on July 18, marking the end of the project’s construction phase and the start of the installation stage, scheduled for completion in September 2020.

Germany’s Wintershall DEA is developing Dvalin with Norway’s Petoro and French-owned Edison. The project, slated to cost kroner 10.6bn ($1.2bn), will involve the tie-back of a subsea template to the Heidrun platform. London-based TechnipFMC is building this template and the Transocean Arctic semi-submersible is scheduled to drill field wells this summer.

“The M40 module is a significant investment for DEA, but the project could not have been in better hands,” Roy Padgett, Wintershall Dea’s facilities project manager for the Dvalin field said. “Aibel's team in Haugesund has delivered a high quality complex module, on schedule and with an outstanding safety record and safety culture. DEA would like to congratulate and thank Aibel on this fantastic achievement.”