Sète: Dismantling and rebuilding of a refined product loading and unloading pipeline
Geocean was commissioned to replace a refined product loading/unloading pipeline inside a port enclosure.
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Location Sète, France
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Solution Conventional Energy
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Key date 2017 – 2018
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Customer BP
This delicate operation had to be carried out without disrupting activity, ensuring a pipeline break along a route imposed by the port’s architecture. It involved dismantling an existing pipeline and installing a new 1.4 km, 24″ pipeline by connecting it to a floating line above the water.
Engineering, procurement, construction and installation:
- Supply of onshore/offshore equipment.
- Ground preparation (dredging, debris removal, backfilling).
- one subsea pipeline, 24″ O.D., 1,400 mm long).
- Installation of power cables.
- Onshore prefabrication of pipeline sections.
- Launching, towing and burying of pipelines.
- Connection of sections on floating equipment.
- Installation of 9 connection sleeves.
