Claxton, an Acteon company, has installed a high-pressure drilling riser system as part of a contract for Premier Oil’s Catcher area field development in the central North Sea, a news release said.
The development includes the Catcher, Varadero and Burgman fields in Block 28/09a in the U..K.’s central North Sea.
Claxton’s scope of work includes providing the subsea connector to latch the riser with the subsea wellhead; riser tensioning interface from the riser to the rig’s tension system; all riser handling tools and a suite of custom-designed bolt tensioners, which will facilitate flange make-up, the release said. Acteon sister company, 2H Offshore, provided the riser analysis for the Catcher development.
“Each joint was forged from a single billet of material with no joining welds, which makes the riser stronger than traditional systems,” Claxton’s project engineer Owen Lewis said. “The riser’s fatigue life far exceeds the duration of the drilling phase of this project.”
The company secured the contract last year and began mobilization in late July 2015. The contract is for 3 1/2 years, with a possible extension, according to the release.
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