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Essar Projects India Ltd. (EPIL), a leading EPC contractor, on Friday, announced the successful commissioning of four offshore well platforms for its client, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
The value of the contract was around Rs.550 crore ($ 90 million).
An EPIL-led consortium — with Saipem as the engineering partner — was awarded the contract for Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation and Commissioning (EPCIC) of four new well platforms by ONGC. Of these, three platforms are in the C-26 Cluster (C-23, C-26 and B-12-1) in the Tapti field, situated 160 km-200 km to the north-west of Mumbai in water depths of 20 m-30 m. The fourth platform—B-173 AB—is adjacent to an existing B-173 A platform in the Neelam field, situated 50 km west of Mumbai in water depths of around 55 m, a company statement said here.
The project also involved installing a bridge connecting the new B-173 AB platform with the operational B-173 A platform, including structural and process modifications related to the integration of the two platforms.
The project entailed procurement, fabrication and installation of approximately 10,000 tonnes of steel. The primary structures of the platforms were fabricated at Adyard, Abu Dhabi, and transported to India. Fabrication activities for associated structures were executed simultaneously from four different locations of sub-vendors of Adyard. As a result, the Essar Projects team managed to complete most of the work, including major installations of deck and jacket, before the close of clear weather window in May 2016. The remaining hook-up and pre-commissioning work was executed after the end of the 2016 monsoons.
The installation had to be carried out in hostile environmental conditions characterised by strong ocean currents and poor underwater visibility, said AV Amarnath, COO, EPIL.
He said EPIL is the first Indian company that ventured into the challenging business of offshore construction in the late 1980s. Since then, EPIL has provided a range of project management and EPCIC services to various clients in the offshore sector.
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