Under the contract, Kvaerner will provide services and assistance to Technip during mooring, upending, ballasting, installation of predefined equipment and preparation of the Aasta Hansteen Spar for mating with the topside.
The mooring site will be in Digernessundet, an established deep-water site in the locality of the Kvaerner yard at Stord.
According to Kvaerner, the spar is slated to arrive at Stord in summer 2015 and expected to be prepared for mating by 2015.
The Aasta Hansteen, with a total length of 198m, will be the major spar platform in the world.
Technip and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in a consortium were awarded a contract from Statoil to engineer, procure and construct (EPC) the Aasta Hansteen spar substructure.
The spar hull will be engineered by Technip in Houston and fabricated by HHI in Ulsan, Korea, and it will be transported on a heavy lift carrier to Kvaerner’s facilities at Stord.
