Statoil’s largest ever jacket project is one step closer to completion.
This timelapse video, taken by Dragados Offshore, shows the Mariner jacket being loaded onto a barge off Spain’s Cadiz coast.
The jacket, equipped with buoyancy and rigging tanks, weighs 22,400 tons. Without the tanks, the structure weighs in at 19,300 tons, making it the Norwegian operator’s largest jacket on record.
It stretches 150 metres covering an area of 88m by 52m on the seabed – an area larger than Aberdeen Football Club’s pitch.
The barge will travel 1,845 nautical miles to the Mariner field in August. The trip is expected to take 15 days. It’s due to be installed in September.
Statoil’s Mariner project is the largest field development on the UKCS in more than a decade, with a gross investment of more than $7billion.
It is expected to produce more than 250million barrels of heavy oil during its 30-year lifespan, with average plateau production hitting around 55,000 barrels per day.