Installation of mooring lines for the Energean Power floating production, storage, and offloading vessel at the 267 MMboe 2P Karish field offshore Israel is in progress following the installation of suction anchors, Energean PLC said Aug. 24. The project remains on track to deliver first gas in second-half 2021.
In less than 3 weeks, 13 piles weighing 176 tons each of 7.5 m diameter, 19 m height, and one pile weighing 233 tons of 9 m diameter, 17 m height, have been installed on the seabed in water depths of 1,695-1,763 m.
The piles were transported and installed by the Fairprayer heavy lift construction vessel, owned by Jumbo Offshore and subcontracted by Karish EPC contractor, TechnipFMC.
The FPSO, to be installed 90 km offshore, will be the first FPSO to operate in the Eastern Mediterranean and will be used to develop Energean’s Israeli fields. It will have a gas treatment capacity of 800 MMscfd and liquids storage capacity of 800,000 bbl.
In June, the company completed installation of the sales gas export pipeline and main deepwater production systems in the Karish and Tanin development project (OGJ Online, June 22, 2020).
