Aquatic completes carousel works at South Belut field

By Alexander Ginting

UK-based subsea services company Acteon Group reported on Thursday that its unit Aquatic Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd has successfully completed its new carousel, the AQCS-01-1500 maiden project.

Aquatic partnered with integrated subsea services provider Kreuz Subsea on the project. The carousel was successfully used to install 9.7km of 218mm diameter umbilical in the South Belut field offshore Indonesia for ConocoPhillips. As the installation contractor, Kreuz Subsea, engaged Aquatic Asia Pacific to mobilize the modular carousel system onto the Seamec Princess Vessel and transpool the umbilical prior to sailing to the field and laying off the vessel starboard side.

The project saw the Aquatic carousel mobilized for the first time after completing its Factory Acceptance Test in Singapore. Logistically, the first offshore operation for the new carousel was more than sufficient to put it through its paces, requiring three different lengths of flexible product to be spooled onto the carousel at the start of mobilization.

Each length was connected to the next using mid-section connectors, each 8m long. The Aquatic team met the challenges of this complex engineering operation, with representatives from Kreuz Subsea observing each stage. The entire operation from equipment mobilization through to transpooling, offshore laying and demobilization was completed within three weeks.

Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak