Dana Petroleum’s long-awaited Western Isles FPSO has arrived in the Netherlands after sailing from a Chinese yard.
Cosco Shipping Heavy Transport’s Xin Guang Hua was responsible for delivering the mammoth special delivery to the Port of Rotterdam.
The new semi-submersible heavy lift vessel is to now sail into the Calandkanaal, with the Western Isles production platform on board.
Weighing around 30,000 tonnes, it will be unloaded in two days. It will then be taken to Keppel Verolme in the Botlek. The FPSO Western Isles will then be moved to an oil field in the North Sea.
First oil on the Western Isles project was pushed back to late 2017 after it emerged the price tag had reached $2billion.
Western Isles is operated by Dana, which is owned by the Korea National Oil Corporation.
It will help the development of the Harris and Barra fields in the northern North Sea, 160km east of the Shetlands.
Plateau production is expected to be around 40,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day,
The estimated field life is 15 years.