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Date:
Friday, May 8, 2009
Participants from IET Brunei Darussalam
Network paid a visit to Brunei Shell
Petroleum’s onshore Marine Construction
Yard (MCY) at Kuala Belait to tour the
Bugan Drilling Platform on the 8th May
2009 and was organised by BSP’s Mr Soo
Kok Ping. The Bugan Drilling platform is
the second locally fabricated drilling
platform, after Mampak, which was
installed offshore about a year ago.
The new 6-legged unmanned Bugan platform
was designed as a near identical copy of
the existing Champion West CWDP01
platform. Together with innovative
engineering efforts using standardized
equipment, good project management, and
more importantly a dedicated Team, the
Bugan Platform was delivered well ahead
of schedule. The platform is remotely
controlled and equipped with
state-of-the-art technologies including
SMART Wells technology and Foundation
Fieldbus technology. The participants
were also briefed with an engineering
PDMS 3-D model of the entire facility,
before visiting the platform in the
fabrication yard.
The participants got to appreciate the
engineering excellence of a major
project, for an offshore facility, and
the intricacies of monitoring and
control equipment of an unmanned
platform. Bugan is powered and
controlled via a hybrid subsea fibre
optic cable from the Champion–7 manned
complex located some 20 km away. |
