Iraq: Crude oil export expansion project
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Our work
Van Oord is dredging a 44-km-long trench and the
turning basins around three oil loading buoys in Iraqi waters. The first 10km
is 100 meters wide to create sufficient space for Leighton's pipe-laying barge.
Van Oord will be deploying its largest trailing suction hopper dredger HAM 318
and two cutter suction dredgers. The HAM 318 will be working at a distance of
approximately 40 km off shore. The cutter suction dredgers the Haarlem and the HAM
218 will be working closer to the coast.
Our result
As part of the rebuilding of Iraq, a
modern oil terminal is being constructed at sea, which will increase the
country's oil export. The project will create a modern oil terminal close to
the Shatt al-Arab estuary, the river that results from the confluence of the Tigris and the Euphrates.
Progress
Work
has started in January and will continue until November of 2011. After
completing the maintenance dredging project in the port
of Umm Qasr in
2003, this is Van Oord's next project in Iraq.
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| Driver | Energy | | Discipline | Dredging | | Facts | Dredging of 25 million m3 of sand/stiff clay. For security reasons the complete project takes place offshore, including repairs, the workshop, accommodations and the storage of equipment. | | Client | South Oil Company of Iraq and main contractor Leighton Offshore. | | Country | Iraq | | Period | January – November 2011 | |
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