InterMoor completes mooring installation off Malaysia

Offshore staff

(Asia-Pacific) - InterMoor Inc. has completed the engineering, procurement, and installation of suction piles and drag embedment anchors with associated subsea connectors for preset mooring lines in the Kikeh field offshore Sabah, East Malaysia.

InterMoor designed the mooring system to allow relocation of the field-based mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) and to facilitate drilling operations in an area with complex subsea architecture including permanent mooring systems, flowlines, subsea wells, and other structures.

Water depths at the Kikeh field's drilling locations range from 4,200 to 4,400 ft (1,280 to 1,340 m).

This marks the first-ever use of suction piles for mooring off the coast of Malaysia.

InterMoor also managed the mooring operations on the current world record MODU mooring performed for Murphy offshore Sabah in 7,086 ft (2,160 m) of water in 2004.

Kikeh is scheduled to have first production in the latter half of 2007.

Murphy Sabah Oil operates the field along with its partner Petronas Carigali Bhd.

03/15/06