Sonamet and Sarens transported a 2,200-tonne Jacket platform from Belgium to Angola via a large vessel known as a barge.
According to data from the institution to which Jornal de Angola had access, the Jacket is intended for the Sanha Lean Gas Connection (SLGC) project of the oil company Chevron.
The data indicate that the crew used 4 jacks of 200 tons for the movement with 20 ballast pumps to keep the barge at the right level during the transfer of the unit.
The Belgian company Sarens was responsible for planning, coordinating and executing the skidding and subsequent loading of the platform.
The Sanha Lean Gas Connection (SLGC) project is an offshore submarine gas pipeline system located off the Angolan coast, at a water depth of approximately 70,104 meters, designed to transport the associated gas produced in blocks 0 and 14 to the Angola LNG plant ( ALNG).
Developed by Chevron’s national subsidiary, Cabinda Gulf Oil Company (CABGOC), the project aims to supply up to 480 cubic meters of gas from the Sanha field, offshore Cabinda, to the ALNG facilities, in order to mitigate the gas supply deficit predicted between 2022 and 2025.
Chevron owns a 36.4 percent stake in the ALNG plant.
The final investment decision for the SLGC project was taken in January 2021. Chevron awarded the US$300 million project to British player Subsea 7, with manufacturing at the Sonamet shipyard in Lobito.
Sonamet is a joint venture of Subsea 7, Sonangol and Wapo.
The platform is 37 meters high, it took 4 weeks to transport the equipment from Belgium to Angola and another 3 weeks to assemble it.
The platform will be fixed at a depth of 70 meters in Block 0, in the waters of Cabinda. Sonamet has been working with CABGOC since 1998, with emphasis on work on the Vuko A and Kungolo B projects.
