Johan Svedrup riser platform leaves South Korea

South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries has completed a riser platform topside for Statoil’s giant Johan Sverdrup development offshore Norway.

The shipyard said on the 26^th February that the topside module for the Johan Sverdrup riser platform had left the Geoje shipyard. The topside loaded aboard a Dockwise heavy-lift and transportation vessel is expected to arrive to Norway in about six weeks.

Once at the final location at the giant Johan Sverdrup field the North Sea, the topside will be integrated on top of the jacket already in place.

Samsung Heavy Industries is also building the Johan Sverdrup process platform, which is expected to leave South Korea in December 2018.

Statoil recently said that the riser platform was very near setting “what might be an unofficial world record for the fastest construction of a topside of its size.”

Namely, Statoil said it would be just under 20 months from steel cutting to sail-away. The construction of the platform began in June 2016 with the deal for the construction signed a year earlier.

Source: Offshore Energy Today