Tombua Landana platform template complete

Chevron Corp. subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Co. Ltd. took delivery Nov. 26 of the giant Tombua Landana platform template, which was loaded from Heerema Fabrication Group BV’s Heerema Vlissingen construction yard in Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands, to a seagoing barge for transport to Angola. The 1,554-ft, 76,000-ton platform will be installed about 50 miles off Angola in 1,200 ft of water. Construction on the template and the 12 625-ft piles—the longest ever built—began in July 2006. The template has been built with a tolerance of only 3 mm between the cylinders, where the piles have to be driven into the seabed. Photo from Heerema Fabrication.