In eighteen months, Heerema Fabrication Group’s Vlissingen yard has completed the parallel fabrication of two jackets for the Golden Eagle Development project of Nexen Petroleum UK.
With the departure of Nexen’s 6400 tons PUQ (Production Utilities Quarters) jacket from the Heerema Vlissingen fabrication facility at the end of July, Heerema Fabrication Group has completed the fabrication project of the two jackets for the Golden Eagle Development project.
Wellhead Jacket
The Wellhead jacket, 6500 tons in weight, sailed away to its offshore destination from Heerema Vlissingen on 24 May. On 10 June it was installed at the Golden Eagle Field location in the UK sector of the North Sea, approximately 43 miles (70 kilometers) northeast of Aberdeen.
Parallel Fabrication Contract
Heerema Fabrication Group won the contract for parallel fabrication of two jackets and piles for the Golden Eagle Development project in October 2011. Fabrication of the jackets, both with a length of 130 meter and a footprint of 45 x 45 meter, started in February 2012. It is for the first time that Heerema Vlissingen fabricated two large jackets at the same time in only eighteen months.
Golden Eagle
The Golden Eagle development, a £2 billion investment, is expected to produce an estimated 140 million barrels of oil equivalent (gross) of proved and probable reserves over an 18-year period.
First oil production is forecast for late 2014 and the development is expected to have an initial gross production rate of up to 70,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) about 26,000 boe/d net to Nexen).
Picture: Sail away of Nexen's PUQ jacket (by Heerema Fabrication Group)
