April 2014, Vol. 241 No. 4

Features

FPSO Decommissioned Off Tunisia

Unique Seaflex, a Unique Maritime Group, recently carried out a complex underwater lift project in 300 meters of water off Tunisia for Lundin Tunisia BV in the Oudna field. Lundin Tunisia BV is a 40% stakeholder in and operator of the Oudna field located 80 km off Tunisia. Although abandoned by Shell in the mid-1980s when relatively small discoveries in deepwater were considered unviable due to the lack of pipeline infrastructure, the advent of the floating production storage and offshore (FPSO) vessel has made such fields viable. Oudna field was de-mothballed a decade or so ago and serviced until recently by the Ikdam FPSO. At the end of the field’s viable lifecycle