Topaz Energy and Marine has announced the delivery of the deck structure for a Mobile Offshore Production Unit and storage (MOPUstor).
Topaz Fabrication and Construction constructed the MOPUstor deck under a subcontract from Single Buoy Moorings for its client, Talisman Energy Norge. The value of Topaz Engineering's portion of the work was US$75 million.
The MOPUstor weighed 12,400 tonnes at load out and involved more than seven million man-hours.
The MOPUstor was constructed in Topaz's Abu Dhabi yard (ADYARD) and is currently being transported to the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The unit was loaded out onto a heavy lift transportation vessel for the 5,000-kilometre trip to Norway. The MOPUstor will be deployed in the 'Yme' field approximately 110 kilometres offshore on the Norwegian continental shelf at a water depth of 92 meters.
"This is the largest project that Topaz Engineering has undertaken and it is probably the single largest offshore unit ever built in the Middle East," said Bill Bayliss, COO of Topaz Engineering.
