GIRASSOL
Client: Total E&P
Market: Oil & Gas
Scope: A complete and unprecedented revamping project: a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach encompassing all Prezioso Linjebygg’s areas of expertise: blasting (especially U.H.P. water jetting), anticorrosion coatings, fire protection, thermal insulation, scaffolding, rope access work
Key figures:
- Contract size: $310M
- 3 million man-hours over the five-year period
- Average POB: 100 operators (i.e.: 200 mobilised people)
Major dates:
- The project started with a hook-up, in 2006-2007, in Fos-sur-Mer (France) – The Rosa Project
- Year of completion of the whole Girassol project: 2016
Key-features:
- First complete revamping ever on an operating FPSO
- Major safety constraints and measures: training of local workers, equipment adaptation – full compliance with ATEX Zone II directive…
- Environmental protection: compliance with ISO 14001 (abrasive recovery and recycling, especially in the ballast tanks)
- Major project coordination aspects to deal with (day and night work, managing a huge increase in human and material resources, etc.)