Recent steel-cutting ceremony held to commence production on single point mooring buoy
Drydocks World Dubai, the service provider to the marine, offshore, oil, gas and renewable energy sectors, recently held a steel-cutting ceremony to commence production on single point mooring buoy ‘Lekki SPM Project’ planned to be installed in the petroleum product handling facility at the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos State, Nigeria.
The buoy is 16.5m diameter and 10.6m high, weighing around 290 tons. The work on the project will require around 110,000 man-hours to complete the fabrication and testing works.
The Drydocks World scope of fabrication includes bulk procurement, fabrication engineering, assembly, machining, inspection, mechanical completion, testing and load-out of the SPM Buoy. The project is scheduled to be delivered by the end of the first quarter of 2021.
When completed, the proposed mooring facilities will transfer petroleum products through pipelines between the offshore mooring facilities and the onshore storage terminal.
“These have positioned our yard as a global specialist with expertise in delivering large-scale projects of significant complexity,” explained Captain Dr. Rado Antolovic, CEO, Drydocks World.
