Fairmount Glacier Positions FPSO Usan Offshore Nigeria
Fairmount Marine‘s powerful tug Fairmount Glacier has successfully assisted in the installation of the floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO), Usan, offshore Nigeria. The FPSO Usan is one of the largest of its kind: 320 m long and 61 m wide. The unit is built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Korea. For this operation Fairmount was contracted by Saipem Energies, which needed a 200t bollard-pull tug for this job on the Usan field, which is located 100 km south of Port Harcourt.
The tug Fairmount Glacier just had had a successful docking in Durban (South Africa) when it was contracted by Saipem Energies. During mobilisation towards Nigeria, Fairmount Glacier called at Pointe Noir for preparation works. Directly hereafter the tug proceeded towards the Usan field.
On 4 August, the Fairmount Glacier connected to the FPSO Usan as requested by Saipem Energies. After almost nine weeks of continuous heading control and other general assistance to the Usan, the FPSO was successfully installed and Fairmount Glacier was ordered to commence demobilisation.