Heerema Fabrication Group’s (HFG) Vlissingen yard in the Netherlands celebrated the first steel cut on the Gina Krog jacket, the largest launch jacket built at HFG.
The 17,000-ton jacket is being built for Statoil Petroleum AS and is destined for the Gina Krog field development in the central North Sea.
Mr Svein Olav Høyland, asset owner Representative of Statoil, performed the first cut of steel.
Image: First cut steel on Gina Krog, with Svein Olav Hoyland of Statoil (left) and Koos-Jan van Brouwershaven of HFG
The jacket will be about 142m tall, with a footprint of 60 x 50m, and a top of 42.5 x 26.25m. The 250-ton pre-drilling wellhead module of 16 x 17 x 4m, will accommodate the phased development of the Gina Krog field, and will be integrated into the topsides cellar deck.
The project was awarded to HFG in February, this year, and followed a FEED study of the jacket by HFG’s engineering firm, HFG Engineering. Delivery of the jacket and pre-drilling module is scheduled for April 2015.
For the project, HFG invested in heavy duty skid beams on the yard.
The Gina Krog (formerly known as Dagny) field development is a gas, condensate and oil field, located in the Norwegian central part of the North Sea, about 30km northwest of Sleipner.
The Gina Krog field will be developed with a fixed platform in 116m water depth and will be tied into the Sleipner facilities for gas export, with oil transported by tankers.
