Single Anchor Loading System (SAL), ready for Dutch Hanze field
15 June 2001
The Single Anchor Loading System, SAL™, for the Veba Oil Netherland BV operated Hanze field are now ready for tow out from the Nymo Shipyard at the southern coast of Norway. APL is contracted by Coflexip Stena Offshore (CSO) in Paris for supply of this system. CSO will supply the subsea pipeline and umbilical from the SAL anchor to the production platform and will carry out the installation at the field. First oil export from the Hanze field is scheduled to autumn 2001. The field are developed with a gravity base production platform with an oil storage tank as foundation. Produced oil will be pumped through a 16" pipeline to the SAL system where export tankers are moored and loaded.
The SAL-system consists of a single anchor on the seabed with equipment for mooring of and oil transfer to shuttle tankers. Vessels serving the field will upon arrival be moored to the SAL system by means of a mooring hawser with a connected loading hose.
This SAL system has to survive extremely harsh environmental conditions with a design significant waveheight of 12.3 meters at a waterdepth of only 40 meters.
