Engineering, procurement, construction & installation of three short 24-inch pipelines for the Hebron GBS platform’s offshore loading system (OLS) in the Jeanne d’Arc Basin, west of Newfoundland, Canada.

Company: ExxonMobil Canada 

Location: Grand Banks, 350 km southeast of St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

93 m

Max. water depth 

Scope of work 

  • Engineering, procurement, construction & installation of 3x approx. 2-km, 24-inch concrete-weight-coated pipelines 
  • Pre-lay & post-lay survey 
  • Flooding, gauging & testing of the pipelines 
  • Fabrication of pipeline heads, anodes & installation aids 

 3x 24-inch 

concrete-weight-coated pipelines 

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Specials & challenges 

  • Wintertime installation in volatile area known as ‘Iceberg Alley’  
  • Last-minute re-engineering to accommodate change of installation vessel 
  • First-time commercial use of in-house AUT system for NDT of welds 

‘Iceberg Alley’ 

Wintertime installation

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