Melcurt's Scope of work includes FEED verification, detailed Engineering Design, Procurement of 12'' and 6'' flexible pipelines with Subsea Safety Isolation Valves (SSIVs), Transportation and offshore installation of Flexible pipelines & SSIVs, Tie-in/Hook-up to the Mystras FPSO and Okpoho Well head platform (WHP), FPSO and WHP topsides modification, Pre-commissioning, Commissioning and Hand-over. Detailed Engineering Design is underway in Nigeria with the manufacturing of the Flexible pipelines and SSIVs taking place in Denmark and Brazil. offshore installation is scheduled to take place Q1 2021.

The first challenge stemmed from the very fast current of the river at the Upstream section of the LBV station, which led to the damage of the existing pipe section, and hence a threat to the proposed pipeline to be installed. MELCURT successfully salvaged the old Pipeline section, Dredged the river to meet the required installation profiles and successfully installed the 16’’ Pipeline by River Crossing. Melcurt Nigeria, in a bid to provide stability for the pipeline from the river current, installed about 100 concrete mattresses as required by the client.

The scope of work was to carry out a permanent repair using Cofferdam on two points on the 16” X 26km North Bank Forcados Odidi AGG Pipeline. Some of the major challenges were tidal changes, the presence of underground facilities and disused manifold within site layout and unfriendly weather conditions.

The scope of work was to carry out a permanent repair by replacement/installation on the leak areas. This was done but Inspite of flushing there was still consistent emission of gas during salvaging. As a result, WRPC fire fighting team were mobilized to the highly volatile areas for quick response in case of fire outbreak. Some sections of the pipeline were clustered as a result of many pipeline passing through the same right of way thereby making the work area unconducive. Some of our major successes were involvement of personnel from mobilization stage without fatality showed good management coordination. We maximized the opportunity of the project to develop the host community workers. We worked without polluting the environment.