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A new multipurpose vessel will play a key role on Shell’s

Malampaya project ofshore Malaysia.

Pieter van Hekken explains.

Multitasking

Boskalis Ofshore’s new on Malampaya multipurpose vessel, the .Ndeavor

Photo courtesy of Boskalis Ofshore. n the Q1 this year [2014], Boskalis away in 43m water depth. A Phase 2 of the platform and the dry gas transported

Offshore will start one of the most project saw two more subsea production via a 504km-long (313mi) 24in. export

I challenging projects in its history. wells drilled on the feld, using the ENSCO pipeline to Batangas port for further

Boskalis Offshore, a subsidiary of 8504. Phase 3, the current project, is part processing.

Netherlands-based Royal Boskalis of the optimization of the feld. The project is one of the frst in which

Westminster N.V., is responsible for To maintain the gas pressure in the the expertise of Boskalis and SMIT, the seabed work—excavation and rock feld, an offshore depletion compression acquired by Royal Boskalis in 2010, have placement—as well as for the Transport & platform (DCP), currently under con- been brought together in an integrated

Installation (T&I) of a new offshore plat- struction in Keppel Subic Shipyard Inc.’s package. form at the Malampaya gas feld, off the fabrication yard in Subic Bay, on the west Boskalis was awarded the contract in island of Palawan, under a contract with coast of the island of Luzon in Zambales, April 2013. Boskalis Offshore opened a

Shell Philippines Exploration. Philippines, will be installed alongside project offce in Manila, next to Shell, as

Malampaya’s production, at about the existing production platform. part of the preparation work. One of two 380MM scf/d natural gas and 15,000 bbl/d The DCP’s two gas turbine-driven com- new, multipurpose vessels, the Ndeavor, condensate, currently supplies fuel to pressors will maintain the gas at reservoir delivered in November, was also three natural gas-fred power generation pressure. Condensate is removed on the designed with the project in mind. plants in the Batangas area. At The frst phase of seabed the moment, it is the country’s preparation begins in Q1, this only major source of natural year, and the T&I phase in Q4. gas supply. Shell estimates Timing and proper planning

Malampaya powers about 30% for this project are crucial. of the Philippines’ electricity The power plants in Batangas requirements. port area are responsible

The Malampaya Deep Water for the electricity supply to

Gas-to-Power Project is a joint some 40% of the people of venture involving the Philippine Philippines. It is vital that the

National Oil Company (10% WI), gas fow isn’t interrupted.

Chevron (45% WI), and Shell When the DCP platform is

Philippines Exploration (45% hooked up to existing plat-

WI and operator). Operations form, Shell will have to take began in 2001. the existing facilities offine,

The Malampaya reservoir, in so the whole procedure has to the deepwater Palawan basin, be planned years in advance. is produced via a 10-slot subsea Preparation work has manifold in 820m water depth involved sourcing rock to cre-

The Malampaya depletion compression platform.

Image courtesy of Boskalis Ofshore.

tied back to a platform 30km ate rock pads for the platform

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