SOFEC awarded CALM Buoy for SEPOC

SOFEC announced that Safer Exploration & Production Operations Co. (SEPOC) has signed an EPC contract for the supply of a Catenary Anchor Leg Mooring (CALM) Buoy to be installed off the coast of Yemen.

SOFEC will be responsible for the engineering, procurement and construction of the CALM Buoy and will assist in offshore commissioning activities. The CALM Buoy will be constructed in the Middle East, and will be delivered in Q3 2015.

The buoy is designed to weathervane with a tanker moored and will continue operations in relatively high wind and wave environments. This capability to weathervane allows continual transfer of liquid hydrocarbons, regardless of vessel heading.

The CALM Buoy will moor tankers up to 300,000 dwt in a water depth of approximately 32 m. The buoy will be permanently moored with six symmetrically arranged anchor legs terminating at the seabed with piled anchors. It will be connected to the new 36-in. pipeline using flexible submarine hoses that will allow product to flow between the geostationary fixed 36-in. pipeline and floating CALM Buoy System. Similar flexible floating hoses will provide the flow path from the rotating turntable of the CALM Buoy to tankers that are moored to the Buoy.

SOFEC previously delivered the turret mooring system for the SEPOC SAFER FSO in 1988. It was the largest FSO in the world at 409,000 dwt and is still in operation.

SOFEC Senior Management noted that this new project award is proof that long term commitments to develop and maintaining good working relationships play a valuable role in future business opportunities.

Adapted from press release by Katie Woodward

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