Installation of 500-kilometre subsea pipeline system for the first development phase of the deepwater Leviathan natural gas field offshore Israel.  

Company : Noble Energy 

Location : Eastern Mediterranean, 130 km west of Haifa, Israel 

10 – 1710 m 

Water depth

Scope of work 

  • Installation of 2x 118-km of 18-inch gathering  pipelines 
  • Installation of 2x 118-km of 6-inch MEG flowlines 
  • Installation of 5-km of 20-inch gathering pipeline  
  • Installation of 4x 14-inch flowlines (total 20 km)  
  • Installation of 10-km bundle (32-inch concrete-weight-coated piggybacked with 6-inch condensate line) 
  • Design, fabrication & installation of structures (13x PLETs, various crossing structures) 
  • Shore pull-in (Direct Pipe method) through tunnel 
  • Trenching & backfilling up to 60 m water depth (total 7 km) 

2x 118-km

18-inch gathering  pipelines

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Specials & challenges 

  • Design & fabrication of 13 PLETs 
  • Fabrication of ~40 steel crossing supports 
  • Supply of ~340 buoyancy blocks. 
  • Supply of 17.3 km of 6-inch / 18-inch VIV strakes 
  • Installation of 1.2-km of 56-inch Direct Pipe Drilling casing for landfall pull-in 
  • Supply of ~1910 half shell pipeline anodes 

~40 

steel crossing supports 

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