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Going to press, Kvaerner, which delivered Aker BP’s Val- maintenance are a challenge. There’s also not a ?eet of vessels hall Flank West platform, was due to deliver a front-end engi- as available as in somewhere like the North Sea. So unmanned neering and design (FEED) study to Shell for an unmanned was a requirement. The biggest challenge here is mostly about wellhead platform for the Jackdaw project in the UK North mindset, says Nyborg, “taking on board that this is 200km

Sea. It worked with Leirvik and Rambøll on the project. Aker away from the mainland, where there are not many people.

Solutions, meanwhile, is currently working on Chevron’s Jan- It’s 200km to any proper facilities. You have to cut surplus and sz-Io project, in Australia. It’s a 200 km long step-out subsea the nice to haves and keep the core things.” compression project, which requires an unmanned power and Aker is also working on the FEED stage of BP’s Cypre project control station (FCS), based on a semisubmersible, to house offshore Trinidad; a well head platform that BP is considering electric drives, transformers and breakers etc. for the subsea replicating in the basin. “The idea is to standardise on the one compressors and pumps. The distance means manning and design and build it,” says Nyborg. It will also not have a helideck. 40 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM