MDL wins pipelay work offshore Equatorial Guinea

ABERDEEN - Maritime Developments will supply a complete pipelay spread and personnel for a flexible installation offshore Equatorial Guinea, with a work scope to cover the launch of a number of new wells in an existing network of drill centers in the West African basin. The MDL spread will consist of the MDL Horizontal Lay System (HLS), delivered with a 4-track pipelay tensioner; an MDL Second-generation Reel Drive System and MDL’s integrated Track and Cradle System.

The project is due to commence in Q3 this year and will be MDL’s fourth campaign in West Africa in 2019. Previous missions included operations offshore Nigeria and Ghana.

Dave Gardiner, MDL BD & commercial manager, said “The equipment is easily mobilized on a vessel of opportunity, and our portfolio allows us to tailor a pipelay spread to optimize the client’s work scope. For that reason, the MDL spread helps bring time-constrained wells online quicker and cheaper than when relying on dedicated pipelay vessels.”