Offshore staff
LONDON – Neptune Energy has started the first walk-to-work (W2W) campaign at its Cygnus gas field complex in the UK southern North Sea.
Bibby Marine’s WaveMaster 1 vessel will support brownfield modifications, maintenance, and inspection activities.
The vessel’s motion-compensated transfer gangway allows crews to walk between the vessel and the Cygnus Bravo platform, rather than performing multiple helicopter flights to and from shore.
The W2W campaign at the platform, which is usually unmanned, should also allow for additional operations to be performed that would have otherwise been scheduled separately.
Neptune Energy’s managing director for the UK, Alexandra Thomas, said the arrangement with Bibby will “enable us to consider alternative execution strategies for extended shutdowns, intensive fabric maintenance or inspection programs in the future.”
09/02/2021
