HOUSTON, Might 13, 2025/ PRNewswire/– McDermott reveals the safe, effective conclusion of fabrication, building and construction, and offshore floatover of the Scarborough drifting production system (FPU) topside and hull structures for Woodside Energy.
The agreement, granted in 2021, followed the effective shipment of front-end engineering style for the Scarborough Energy Task’s FPU and consists of engineering, procurement, building and construction, setup and commissioning (EPCIC) services. McDermott is providing style, fabrication, combination, transport and setup of an around 30,000-metric-ton topside and 37,000-metric-ton hull structure, making it the biggest drifting production center the business has actually ever developed and constructed, and among the biggest semi-submersible production platforms integrated in overseas history.
Topsides fabrication was finished at McDermott’s joint endeavor backyard, Qingdao McDermott Wuchuan (QMW), in Qingdao, China, while the hull was built by COSCO in its Qidong shipyard, likewise in China The topsides have 6 deck levels; 169 core devices systems, consisting of 3 gas turbine-driven export gas compressors and 3 primary generators with waste heat healing systems; more than 50,000 meters of piping; one million meters of cabling; 568 incorporated subsystems and a battery energy storage system, supporting functional emissions decrease.
Previously this month, both structures were carried offshore, and the topsides set up onto the hull through floatover off the coast of Dalian, China
Following the effective floatover, the FPU got to CIMC’s Raffles backyard in Yantai, China, for last combination works. From there, it is anticipated to cruise away to Western Australia, where it will be moored at the Scarborough gas field around 375 kilometers offshore from the Burrup Peninsula.
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