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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
The salvage work to raise the Perro Negro 6 rig from the ocean floor off the coast of Angola will not be complete until March 2015 according to Boskalis, the company removing the rig. The rig, contracted to Chevron, sank in July 2013 when it was being positioned to bore a tunnel for a gas pipeline that would feed the Angola LNG plant.
Saipem, the rig owner, selected South African company Smit Salvage, a unit of Netherlands-based Boskalis, to remove the rig.
“Including the preparation phase (engineering and outfitting), mobilization and demobilization, the salvage operation is expected to take around 10 months,” a Boskalis spokesman said. “The work is expected to commence in this quarter.”
It will take even longer for a new rig to come into position and dig out a tunnel for the pipeline, a source linked to the liquefaction plant said, according to a Reuters report. The LNG plant recently shut down its production due to technical issues.
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