Jamnagar Pipelay
Jamnagar Export Refinery SPM's & Offshore Pipelines
- Jamnagar, Gujarat, India
- Reliance Ports and Terminals Limited
- Bechtel France S.A.S.
- Leighton International – Valentine Maritime Consortium
- 2006 - 2008
Project Highlights
Leighton-Valentine is installing six subsea pipelines, three single point mooring systems, two riser platforms that form part of the Jamnagar Export Refinery Project in the Gulf of Kutch on India’s northwest coast.
Each pipeline is approximately 20 kilometers long and either 30 or 48 inches in diameter. They will be used to import crude oil to the new 30 million tonnes per annum refinery, and then export the refined products.
Reliance is in the process of doubling the capacity of the petroleum refinery at Jamnagar which will make it the largest refinery in the world.
BEKK Solutions International Limited provided diving & ROV Support for drilling , grouting and installation of the thirty six anchor piles, installation of the 12 subsea concrete sleepers prior to pipe lays for crossovers of existing live pipelines, installation of PLEM on SPM four, free span correction using freeform grout bags, As-built surveys during Phase 1 of the works.
Operations were complemented by advanced subsea GPS positioning techniques provided by Horizon Survey Company (FZC).