Sarawak Shell, a subsidiary of the UK-headquartered energy giant Shell, is setting all the puzzle pieces together to kick off production from a natural gas development off the coast of Malaysia. The latest milestone in this project comes with the jacket and topside sail-away events for an offshore platform specifically built for the project and designed to run on solar energy.
Topside sail-away of a solar-powered unmanned offshore platform has taken place almost two years after Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering (MMHE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Holdings (MHB), won a contract with Shell to undertake the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services related to the new offshore platform – including a topside, a four-legged jacket, and piles – destined for the Rosmari-Marjoram gas project off the coast of Sarawak.
With a combined total weight of approximately 11,000 mt, the topside left the MMHE West Yard during the last week of September, to begin its journey to an area off the coast of Bintulu, Sarawak. Two weeks before, a jacket, said to be one of the longest to be fabricated with innovative U-Loop design features at 158 meters, was delivered to the same location.
The Malaysian firm underlines the project achieved 2.8 million exposure hours without a single lost time injury (LTI) and with zero defects. Shell made a final investment decision (FID) in 2022 to develop the Rosmari-Marjoram gas project, containing deepwater sour gas fields discovered in 2014.
