London-based heavy subsea construction contractor Ceona secured a letter of intent (LOI) for the company’s flagship field development vessel, the Ceona Amazon. This will be Ceona’s first rigid pipelay project in the GoM for Houston-based Walter Oil & Gas Corp.
The Ceona Amazon will be deployed for the Coelacanth Export Pipelines project. It will install an oil and a gas export line tying the new Coelacanth platform into existing pipeline infrastructure. There will be 22.6 m (about 36 km) of pipeline.
Project management and engineering work has started in Ceona’s Houston office.
Shipbuilding specialist Lloyd Werft successfully delivered the Ceona Amazon less than two years after the LOI for its construction was signed.
The ship has multilay VLS with a top tension of 600 tonnes, and with two 400-tonne active heave compensated masthead cranes. The vessel is 199.4 m (655 ft) long and 32.2 m (106 ft) wide.
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