The project will include a floating production vessel, production wells and a gas export pipeline.
Once the wells are completed, they are connected by flexible hoses to a floating production platform on the surface.
Due to the water depth in the area, Schiehallion is entirely reliant on subsea production technology and is collected on a floating production, storage and offloading vessel.
Equipped with a turntable mechanism at its bow, the floating production platform can swivel a full 360 degrees in treacherous winds while pumping more than 100, 000 barrels of oil a day.
The Chinguetti development will include six production wells, four water injection wells, and a gas injector well, attached to a permanently moored floating production, storage and offloading vessel situated in about 800 metres of water.
While drilling in that depth of water was prohibitively expensive a decade ago, it's now easy for a company Triton's size to rent a drillship to find the oil and set up a floating production platform to process it.
The new Dockwise Vanguard will give the firm the ability to transport even larger and heavier cargoes, including entire Floating Production Storage and Offloading units (FPSOs.) The Dockwise Vanguard is expected to be delivered toward the end of 2012.
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The project (known as Quad 204) involves upgrading and replacing subsea facilities, as well as replacing the existing Schiehallion floating, production, storage and offloading vessel.
Moreover, onshore production of floating turbines that are then towed offshore to be anchored in place should prove cheaper than the weather-restricted and costly off-shore construction of sea-bed turbines.
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The drill ships and production platforms required to undertake such deep drilling are massive floating structures, much larger than the largest aircraft carriers and costing well over a half billion dollars (and close to a million dollars a day to rent).
With the production time set to drop from 24 months to under a year as the company expands, the floating "Orsos Islands" might very soon become a not-too-permanent fixture on the horizon.
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