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    The Zawtika Project involved the float-over installation of a topside module onto an offshore platform in Myanmar. ALE provided ballasting services to rapidly lower the topside barge during installation. ALE engineered the ballasting system and supervised the float-over operation, using their fleet of pumps to ballast over 14885 metric tons of water in under an hour to safely transfer the topside from the barge to its permanent supports.

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    The Zawtika Project involved the float-over installation of a topside module onto an offshore platform in Myanmar. ALE provided ballasting services to rapidly lower the topside barge during installation. ALE engineered the ballasting system and supervised the float-over operation, using their fleet of pumps to ballast over 14885 metric tons of water in under an hour to safely transfer the topside from the barge to its permanent supports.

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    The Zawtika Project involved the float-over installation of a topside module onto an offshore platform in Myanmar. ALE provided ballasting services to rapidly lower the topside barge during installation. ALE engineered the ballasting system and supervised the float-over operation, using their fleet of pumps to ballast over 14885 metric tons of water in under an hour to safely transfer the topside from the barge to its permanent supports.

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    57 Zawtika Float-Over

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    The Zawtika Project involved the float-over installation of a topside module onto an offshore platform in Myanmar. ALE provided ballasting services to rapidly lower the topside barge during installation. ALE engineered the ballasting system and supervised the float-over operation, using their fleet of pumps to ballast over 14885 metric tons of water in under an hour to safely transfer the topside from the barge to its permanent supports.

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    ALE provided ballasting services to lower the topside of an offshore structure onto a preinstalled jacket during the Zawtika project in Myanmar.

    ALE was responsible for the rapid ballasting of the barge during the critical float-over installation stage to transfer the load from the barge to the jacket legs. This included ballast engineering, procedures, and installation supervision.

    ALE provided pumps, power packs, control valves, pipework and an in-house ballast monitoring and control system. The equipment included 24 x 10PS de-ballast pumps.

    Zawtika - Topside Mating

    Floatover Installation Ballasting

    Data project sheet


    Client: Saipem Singapore

    Project location: PT Worldwide—Batam, Offshore - Gulf of Moattama, Myanmar

    Equipment: 30 x 24PS Ballast Pumps 23 x 10PS De-Ballast Pumps & 18 x 325 HPU’s

    Weights: 14885 Metric Tonne

    Abnormal Load Engineering Limited, Sotherby Road, Middlesbrough, TS3 8BS, United Kingdom

    Tel:+44 (0) 1642 292 299 Fax:+44 (0) 1642 242 004 Web: www.ale-heavylift.com

    Registered Office: New Road, Hixon, Staffordshire, ST18 0PE, United Kingdom
    ALE 57
    Company Registration No. 1708850 VAT No: 765329995
    The Zawtika Project is a gas field development project located in the Gulf of Moattama, Myanmar.
    The development area covers Block M9 and small portion of Block M11, owned by Myanmar Oil & Gas
    Enterprise (MOGE). The field lies approximately 300 km south of Yangon and 290 km west of Tavoy on the
    Myanmar coast with an average water depth if approximately 135-160 meters, (LAT).

    Once again, Saipem approached


    and contracted ALE to perform the
    Float-Over Installation rapid
    ballasting during the Zawtika
    installation. This was awarded
    following the similar successful Bien
    Dong Project Float-Over 2012.

    Currently ALE own one of the


    largest fleet of Ballast pumps in the
    world - with a total pumping capacity
    of over 160,000 Cu.M/Hr.

    Zawtika Field Development

    ALE’s scope of work was to


    provide the “Rapid Ballasting” of
    the barge at the critical stage of
    the “Float-Over Installation” for
    load transfer from the barge to the
    preinstalled jacket legs.

    ALE performed all of the Rapid


    Ballast engineering associated
    with the float-over installation from
    Ballast Calculations, to
    Procedures. ALE’s scope of work
    also included Float-Over
    installation supervision. ALE also
    provided all necessary equipment
    and control systems associated to
    the RBS. Major equipment
    included pumps, power packs, Zawtika ZPQ under tow
    directional control valves,
    pipework and ‘In-House’ Ballast/
    Draft Monitoring and Control
    system.

    Topside barge being manoeuvred into position between the ZPQ jacket legs
    The barge used was the Saipem S45 with key dimensions, 180meters long
    x 42 meters. The barge was towed to the offshore site from Singapore
    following the topside load out. The barge was manoeuvred very carefully
    between the jacket legs lining up the topside before the ballasting operation to lower the topside onto the
    jacket commenced.

    Client: Saipem Singapore Location: PT Worldwide—Batam


    Offshore - Gulf of Moattama,
    Project: Zawtika Ballasting Myanmar
    Market Sector: Offshore
    ALE 57
    ALE’s On Site installation crew
    accessed the barge onshore at PT
    Worldwide Site in Batam, Indonesia to
    work alongside the Saipem yard team to
    install the External Barge Ballast
    System, (EBBS).

    Following procedures, 24PS pumps


    were lowered down the 30 overboard
    risers pipes, individual tank transducers
    were placed in the corresponding draft
    tubes and all hydraulic systems were
    commissioned. Following a function test
    and completion certificate the system
    was operational within 2 days.

    Drawing showing the ballast pipe and pump layout on the barge deck

    The ballast system and layout is bespoke and designed for each
    individual project, in particular to this job the ballast system had to
    be designed to the S45 barge layout and had to meet site
    requirements we provided enough ballasting to reduce the barges
    draft by 1m in 10 minutes that's 62’000 Cu.M/hour.
    Once the barge approached the final
    destination , the ALE Operation Team were
    remobilised to re-commission and function test
    the EBBS. The barge was manoeuvred between
    the Zawtika jacket legs and once the topside
    slots were aligned the ballasting system was
    activated in ALE’s Central Control Room.

    Barge and loadout support frame being lowered and removed Topside in Final Position with Barge removed.

    After approximately 1 hours of ballasting the topside was transferred from the barge onto its
    permanent supports. The barge was then removed from under the topside and the operation was
    successfully completed.

    Client: Saipem Singapore Location: PT Worldwide—Batam


    Offshore - Gulf of Moattama,
    Project: Zawtika Ballasting Myanmar
    Market Sector: Offshore
    ALE 57

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