Van Oord wins two contracts in Egypt - MARITIME JOURNAL

Van Oord will deploy a trailing suction hopper dredger
and a backhoe dredger to Egypt

22 Dec 2016
Larz Bourne

Dutch dredging and marine construction company Van Oord has been awarded two contracts by international contractor Subsea 7.

The assignments include the construction of a landfall and the execution of subsea rock installation works in Egypt. The projects are part of the West Nile Delta project, which comprises the development of a series of gas fields, located 65km off the northern coast of Egypt. The final client is oil and gas company BP. Preparations on site have already started.

The landfall scope of work consists of the installation of a cofferdam, trenching and pipe pull activities and will be executed in 2017. The landfall location is at the Burrulus terminal near Idku, 50km from Alexandria. Van Oord will deploy a trailing suction hopper dredger, a backhoe dredger and 600t winch. The flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes will be deployed to execute rock installation activities to prevent upheaval buckling.

Van Oord wins two contracts for West Nile Delta offshore Egypt - OFFSHORE MAGAZINE

Van Oord's flexible fallpipe vessel 'Stornes' 

11/03/2016

Offshore staff

ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands – Subsea 7 has contracted Van Oord to construct the landfall and execute subsea rock installation works for the West Nile Delta project in the Egyptian sector of the Mediterranean Sea. Preparations on-site have already started.

The BP-operated project, located 65 km (40 mi) offshore northern Egypt, comprises the development of a series of gas fields. The first phase, which includes the Taurus and Libra fields, consists of a nine-well tieback to the existing Burullus facilities.