Ceona, SURF contractor with heavy subsea construction capabilities, secured a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the company’s flagship field development vessel, the Ceona Amazon. This will be Ceona’s first rigid pipelay project in the Gulf of Mexico for US independent oil & gas operator, Walter Oil & Gas Corporation.
The Ceona Amazon will be deployed for the Coelacanth Export Pipelines project with the scope of work encompassing the installation of an oil and a gas export line tying the new Coelacanth Platform into existing pipeline infrastructure. Each 10” line will be approximately 11 miles, totalling 22.6 miles. The pipelines will each be terminated by two pipeline end termination (PLETs) structures installed by the Amazon. All work will be undertaken in one single mobilisation. Project Management and Engineering work has started in Ceona’s Houston office with support from the corporate offices in London and Aberdeen.
The Ceona Amazon will represent the second new vessel – after the Polar Onyx – that Ceona has brought to the market on time and budget. The Ceona Amazon is 199.4m long and 32.2m wide, drawing 8.0m with a gross tonnage of 33,000te. She is due to enter service in March 2015.