Bluewater winsSPM UAE contract

Offshore staff

Abu Dhabi Oil Co. Ltd. Japan awarded Bluewater Energy Services BV a contract for the design and supply of a complete single point mooring system for the Mubarraz oil field offshore UAE. ADOC will use the system for crude oil and condensate export.

Bluewater's work scope includes the design, procurement, and fabrication of a turret-type, catenerary anchor leg mooring buoy including a pipeline end manifold, telemetry system, geophysical/technical survey, and piled mooring system.

ADOC wants the buoy built offshore Abu Dhabi in 19 m water depth to service tankers up to 330,000 dwt. Bluewater will deliver the system in 2006.

"This contract award by ADOC for a turret-type, CALM buoy represents the third successive contract for Bluewater in the UAE for this type of buoy. The previous two were for Vopak for the Fujairah terminal and for ADMA-OPCO for the DAS Island marine terminal," said Hugo Heerema, president, Bluewater Energy Services BV, says.

6/29/05