A team from Royston Limited have completed an engine overhaul on the Haewene Brim FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) vessel.
The facility has operated in the Pierce field in the UK sector of the North Sea since 1999 and last year it was also linked to the Brynhild field in the Norwegian sector.
A scheduled 48,000 hour service on the first engine required Royston engineers to completely dismantle the engine and overhaul the cylinder heads and liner, pistons, con rods, cam shafts and
bearings.
The service and overhaul had started earlier this year, but unfortunately was halted when adverse weather conditions and winds caused the evacuation of non-critical personnel from the platform.
Once work resumed, damage to the crankshaft journal bearings had been identified required remedial work to be undertaken.
Royston engineers remained on board to oversee and assist with the work and resumed the main engine service.
Steve Williams, lead mechanical technician on the Haewene Brim said: “The Royston team have been extremely professional throughout and have really worked hard at all times.
“The team is very well balanced in terms of their skills and expertise and have also fitted in very well on board.
“I cannot commend them enough, and look forward to working with them again on the next overhaul.”
The Haewene Brim was originally built at the Samsung yard in Korea as a multi-purpose shuttle tanker and was converted to an FPSO at the Aker McNulty yard in Newcastle in 1998, ahead of deployment in the Pierce Field.
To extend its field life, a water injection topsides module was added in September 2004.
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