Proforma Safety Participates in BP Thunder Horse Undersea Manifold Replacement
Posted by proforma on June 20, 2010
Proforma Safety’s Chris Hosid is working on the Thunder Horse subsea manifold replacement project; here, depicted is the DC-41 APS manifold recovery.
BP announced in April that it was replacing undersea manifolds serving the platform. This maintenance has been planned for more than a year, is likely to result in a cut in annual production by about 10,000 barrels of oil and gas equivalent per day.
Thunder Horse has a 96 percent rate of “reliability” since starting up June 2008, according to BP’s Thunder Horse deputy operations manager Wissam Al Monthiry in this recent article. subsea manifold failures due to hydrogen embrittlement
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