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The Maari Wellhead Platform (WHP) was installed off the coast of New Zealand in 2008. It consisted of a hollow shell base topped by a 140m jacket and a 50m x 55m topside deck. Fagioli was contracted to develop and operate the jacking system used in the installation. The system included 24 tensioning jacks, 18 lifting jacks, 24 lowering jacks, cables, anchors and power packs. It was used to lift, tow, lower the base and jacket, and raise the deck into position, allowing for the complex offshore installation of the WHP.

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Maari

The Maari Wellhead Platform (WHP) was installed off the coast of New Zealand in 2008. It consisted of a hollow shell base topped by a 140m jacket and a 50m x 55m topside deck. Fagioli was contracted to develop and operate the jacking system used in the installation. The system included 24 tensioning jacks, 18 lifting jacks, 24 lowering jacks, cables, anchors and power packs. It was used to lift, tow, lower the base and jacket, and raise the deck into position, allowing for the complex offshore installation of the WHP.

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Maari Wellhead Project (WHP)

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The Maari WHP DrillACE self-installing platform was installed in
April 2008, in the Maari field located some 100 km off the West
coast of New Zealands North Island in the Taranaki basin.
The design of the Maari WHP basically incorporates the following
elements:
A hollow shell suction base surmounted by a 140 metre high
centrally located jacket
A 50 metre by 55 metre topside platform deck, which is built
surrounding but not connected to the jacket. This is designed to
act as a floating transportation barge. The topside facilities
include accommodation, crane and helideck which were fully
installed during the initial fabrication phase.
Fagioli was appointed by Clough Ltd to develop, design and
operate jacking systems to facilitate the following activities:
Installation of the jacking system in the fabrication yard in
Lumut, Malaysia.
Test lift in the fabrication yard in Lumut, Malaysia.
Adjustment of the entire system for the loadout of the WHP from
the fabrication site in Lumut, Malaysia onto a heavy transport
vessel, the MV Blue Marlin.
Adjustment of the entire system for the shipping journey to
Admiralty Bay, New Zealand, where it was anchored in
sheltered waters.
Adjustment of the entire system for the float-off operation from
the MV Blue Marlin.
Adjustment of the entire system for the wet tow of the platform
from Admiralty Bay and the Maari field installation site
Operation of the system for the installation of the platform.
OFFSHORE 08
The jacking system therefore consisted as
follows:
Twenty four L600 jacks for pretension of the
strand cables. Maintaining pretension was vital to
dampen out a large amount of the hydrodynamic
forces acting on the system. These were mounted
at the top of the jacket and connected via
hydraulic and electronic umbilicals to power
packs and control equipment at deck level.
Eighteen L600 jacks for lifting the deck. These
were mounted within purpose manufactured
reaction frames connected to the deck. The
gripping systems were opposed to those in the
pretension jacks.
Twenty four L600 jacks for lowering the base.
These were mounted within the same reaction
frames as the lifting jacks.
Both the lifting and lowering jacks were connected
by via hydraulic and electronic umbilicals to power
packs and control equipment at deck level. To save
on the limited amount of available deck space
allowed for temporary equipment each set of four
power packs per jacket chord were housed in
purpose manufactured twin level frame supports.
Twenty four 37/18 lifting cables x 140 metre long.
Eighteen each with a single pretension, lowering
and lifting jack along with fixed anchor, housing
and link plate attached. Six each with a single
pretension and lowering jack along with fixed
anchor, housing and link plate attached.
Twenty four L600 fixed anchors.
Twenty four. L600 fixed anchor housings.
Twenty four purpose manufactured fixed anchor
links.
Sixteen L4/35D diesel/hydraulic power packs for
the control of the lifting and lowering jacks.
Four L8/5D diesel/hydraulic power packs for the
control of the pretension jacks.
One remote computerised control system working
on a closed network consisting of master and
slave computers for the pretension, lowering and
lifting systems.
One remote computerised platform CoG
monitoring system for the ballasting system.
Prior to the float-off operation, Fagioli adjusted loads in the clamping and pretension
systems. The float-off required the midsection of the 224 metres long, 63 metres wide
MV Blue Marlin to submerge to a depth of 12 metres to 13 metres. After float-off
Fagioli again adjust loads in the clamping and pretension systems ready for the wet
tow to the installation site. The WHP was then towed by two 150 tonne bollard pull
tugs into the field where it was positioned and held on station.
The clamping force between the deck and base was then reduced until the two
components parted. Re-evaluation of all forces within the system and readjustment
of various jacks including the pretension system were made in preparation for the
base/jacket lowering operation. The base and jacket were then lowered to the
seabed. Periodic changes in loads due to ballasting were accounted for within the
control system settings. As the base neared the seabed mudline the lowering
system flow rate was halved to slow the lowering rate down in preparation for
spudding of the base skirt.
Once the skirt and base were completely spudded in and the load on the lowering
jacks had decreased sufficiently the lifting jacks were operated to transfer the
remaining load from the lowing jacks and to elevate the deck out of the water up to
its final elevation on the jacket. Once in position the lifting jacks at each corner were
operated to allow the deck to be leveled for weldout. The entire Fagioli installation
spread was then demobilised for the platform to workboats and transported to New
Plymouth dockside for loading into transport containers.

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