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Connector to install Goliat power cable
 Aker Solutions has secured more of the workscope for the offshore construction phase for the Barents Sea Goliat project.
Under a new deal the Norwegian contract group has been selected to install a subsea power cable from the field location back to shore.
Aker Solutions’ subsidiary Aker Marine Contractors is to carry out the cable installation programme - a 106.5 kilometres (66 mile) line from Hammerfest in northern Norway to the Goliat FPSO - using its new build marine construction ship AMC Connector.
ABB has already been contracted to supply the power cable which will weigh around 6,000 tonnes - well within the 9,000 tonnes payload capacity of the installation ship - which was previously designated Aker Connector and which is due to be delivered next year by STX Europe after outfitting at their yard in Søviknes, Norway.
Under an agreement signed in March last year ABB agreed to charter the vessel for the cable installation programme at Goliat and Aker will receive a NOK 70 million (US $12.33 million) fee for management of the project. Installation of the cable is due to take place in the second quarter 2013.
Just earlier this month Aker confirmed that the Aker Connector has also been fixed for installation work on Total’s deepwater Clov development offshore Angola and the Connector, which will be owned by a joint venture between Aker Solutions and Ezra Holdings in Singapore,.
Last December the contractor also announced it had won work to perform tie-ins and connections for the Goliat flowlines and riser contract, through a deal with Technip Norway, worth another NOK 65 million.
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Aker group grows value Norwegian industrial group Aker ASA says it value rose 16% in the first quarter to NOK 22.5 billion (US $3.74 bn) as its investments – mainly in oil and gas operations rose in value.
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