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Angel topsides take flight



By Upstream staff 

Photo by Dockwise


The topsides for Woodside Petroleum’s Angel gas project have been floated out from a shipyard in Pasir Gurdang, in Malaysia, bound for the field off Australia’s north-west coast.

Marine transport group Dockwise said the 7300-tonne production unit had left the yard aboard its Black Marlin heavy transport vessel.

Dockwise was handed the contract to deliver and install the topsides by the Clough Aker joint venture, which built the unit for Woodside, in December 2005. The Black Marlin vessel was outfitted to handle the load and arrived in Malaysia on 14 February.

The topsides sit atop a 21-metre-high deck support unit weighing an additional 850 tonnes. Dockside said in a statement the delivery and installation of the unit would set a world height record.

The voyage to the Angel project site is expected to take six days.

The Angel field is part of the Woodside-operated North-West Shelf Venture.

Dockside said in a separate release yesterday that its Suezmax tanker Front Granite had arrived at the Cosco Zhousan shipyard for conversion into a heavy lift vessel.

Building of the new mid-ship section for the vessel has already started a the shipyard.

Dockwise will take delivery of three heavy-lift conversions in the course of this year, it said.


Monday, 24 March, 2008, 01:28 GMT  | last updated: Monday, 24 March, 2008, 06:40 GMT

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