By the end of the quarter, the ACE project had reached 86% progress milestone, reads the business update of BP Azerbaijan on the results of the first quarter of 2023, Report informs, citing bp.
During the quarter, the Azeri Central East (ACE) platform jacket sailed away from the Heydar Aliyev Baku Deepwater Jackets Factory, where it was built, to its permanent location at the ACG field and was installed in a water depth of 137 metres.
The jacket was fully commissioned and tested onshore prior to its sail away on 16 March. It is now ready waiting for the platform’s topsides unit.
The jacket subsea structures and spools fabrication is currently 94% complete.
The ACE platform topsides unit and drilling facilities fabrication and commissioning activities continued at the fabrication yard in Bibi-Heybat. The construction and commissioning works are now in the final stages and are expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2023.
Once fully completed and operationally tested, the topsides unit will be loaded out onto the transportation barge STB-1, transported to the ACG field and installed onto the jacket.
The subsea oil pipeline isolation tool was launched and the works to isolate the pipeline topsides were also completed in the first quarter. The diving support vessel completed the tie-in of the existing 30” spool, while the Citadel vessel commenced the isolation tool reversal activity.
Offshore construction works for the Central Azeri platform telecom modifications for ACE also commenced in the first quarter.