Arup, a multidisciplinary engineering and consulting firm with a reputation for delivering innovative and sustainable designs, has been selected by Husky Energy to carry out the detailed engineering design (DED) for the offshore Eastern Canada White Rose Extension Project (WREP) concrete gravity structure.
Subject to partner, corporate and regulatory approvals, WREP is being developed through the building of a wellhead platform, and Arup will be responsible for the DED of the concrete gravity structure (CGS) of the wellhead platform.
The CGS will be constructed in a purpose-built dry graving dock and, when completed, will be the first fixed wellhead platform off the coast of Newfoundland & Labrador.
Arup was hired by Husky to perform a concept study for the wellhead platform and provided project management and design services for the pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) and FEED.
This included management of the pre-FEED of the topside drilling and accommodation module supported on the CGS platform.
Arup’s concept centres on using a dry-build solution for the CGS, which allows the structure to be constructed entirely onshore (locally, as was the case with the Hibernia platform gravity base) and then towed 350km east of Newfoundland to the site and installed by ballasting on to the seabed.
In addition to project management and design services, Arup provided the following services:
o Offshore engineering
o Structural, mechanical and electrical engineering
o Civil engineering
o Cost estimating
o Geotechnical engineering
o Maritime engineering
o Seismic design
Key collaborators on the project include Wood Group unit Mustang Canada, which has completed the drilling and accommodation FEED; Upstream Engineering for the drilling and accommodation concept and pre-FEED; and C-Core for the definition of sea ice and iceberg loading criteria.
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