Offshore staff
HOUSTON– Baker Hughes announced that its subsidiary has chartered a new state-of-the-art pressure pumping vessel that will provide offshore stimulation services to Maersk Oil in the North Sea. Scheduled for completion in late 2013, the Blue Orcawill become the eighth vessel in the company’s fleet.
TheBlue Orca will be rated to 15,000 psi and will offer among the largest fluid and proppant carrying capacities in the world. It will provide 15,000 hydraulic horsepower pumping capacity and the ability to pump at rates more than 60 bpm.
TheBlue Orca will join Baker Hughes’ other stimulation vessels – including the company’s newest additions to the Gulf of Mexico – the Blue Tarpon and the Blue Dolphin. The vessels support offshore completion operations and will be equipped to support high-rate and high-volume multi-zone fracturing operations.
Lindsay Link, Baker Hughes’ president of pressure pumping, said: “Our pressure pumping vessels offer enhanced safety systems with redundant back-up blending and pumping capabilities. When it comes to performing multi-zone, high-rate, high-pressure completions, our vessels are reliable, efficient and minimize delays in high-cost offshore environments, where time is of the essence for the operators on behalf of whom we are working.”
3/13/2012
