Service contract for the Johan Sverdrup Drilling Platform

IKM Testing Thailand Co. Ltd has been awarded the service contract by Aibel for the Johan Sverdrup Drilling Platform

The platform deck for the drilling platform will comprise three modules. Aibel is to build the largest module, the main support frame (MSF), at the company’s yard in Thailand. Work on combining the three modules will start in the autumn of 2017. The finished platform will be handed over to Statoil in the second quarter of 2018.

“We are very proud to be a part of this complex project and appreciate the trust they show us by the award of this contract” says General Manager William Tan.

The Scope of Subcontract Services includes provision of labor, equipment and consumables to carry out the onshore works for Chemical Cleaning and Hot Oil Flushing.

Project is scheduled to commence in January 2017 over a period of 4 months in Thailand.

More than 14 000 people have been involved in the Johan Sverdrup project on a daily basis in 2016. The construction contract for the Johan Sverdrup drilling platform was awarded to Aibel in February 2015. The topside engineering work is being performed in Aibel’s Asker office, where also Statoil’s project team is located.

The 22 500-tonne topsides will consist of three modules, one of which will be built at the yard in Haugesund, one at the Deeline yard in Thailand, and one at Nymo’s yard in Grimstad. The modules will be assembled at Aibel’s yard in Haugesund in the autumn of 2017, before the platform is installed on the field in 2018.