Coflexip Stena Offshore announced today that its new-built ultra deepwater pipelay and subsea construction vessel, the CSO Deep Blue, was delivered on March 1st, by Hyundai Mipo Dockyards after she successfully completed sea trials. The vessel has just left Ulsan, Korea and is now heading towards the Netherlands.
The CSO Deep Blue is now sailing to the Netherlands, where her unique CSO designed pipelay equipment, will be installed.
This pipelay system will allow the vessel to lay rigid pipe (reeled and J-Lay), flexible pipe, and umbilical down to 8,200ft (2,500m) thus offering CSO clients the full range of products and installation options for their deep and ultra deepwater developments.
The vessel is to begin operations during summer 2001 after sea trials with her pipelay equipment.
The CSO Deep Blue will undertake the installation of the export pipeline systems on the Boomvang and Nansen field developments, located in 3,600ft (1,100m) water depth in the Gulf of Mexico.
It will start operations from the newly established CSO spoolbase located in Mobile, Alabama, USA.
CSO, is one of the leading global contractor for subsea and deepwater solutions to the offshore oil and gas industry, offers technically advanced and cost-effective best in class services and products for the development of offshore hydrocarbon fields worldwide.
From front-end engineering to field abandonment, the Group solutions in engineering, fabrication and installation are proposed on either an integrated or a segmented basis.
CSO provides its customers with a large range of deepwater production facilities (SPAR, FPSO, TLP, semi-sub) and leading edge subsea technical expertise in moorings, pipeline-riser-umbilical systems and robotics.
These core skills are supported by strong engineering and project management capabilities, state of the art industrial assets and the most advanced fleet of subsea construction and installation vessels.
Listed in New York (Nasdaq) and in Paris (Premier Marche), the CSO Group, headquartered in Paris, employs approximately 6,700 employees spread over five continents, with subsidiaries in Angola, Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, India, Nigeria, Norway, Russia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.
(Al-Bawaba – MEBG)
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