The derelict Northern Endeavour floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is just days away from its final departure from the Laminaria-Corallina field to be towed to Singapore, ENB can exclusively reveal today.
According to anonymous sources close to the project, the FPSO is currently due to start its 18-day tow to Singapore on 22 September.
The revelations come as teams working on the project work to sever the vessel from its nine subsea anchors, which have tied it to the seabed for more than twenty years.
Work to disconnect the vessel from the nine wells to which it was attached was completed in April.
The vessel’s departure from the fields – about 550km west-north-west of Darwin and 160km south of Timor – will mark the end of phase one of the decommissioning program.
That will enable phase two – the decommissioning of the seabed– to start, a process which is being overseen by Kent, as reported by ENB last month.
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