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'Amazone' in Africa for Pipeline Dredging Works

01 Feb 2003

The Belgian DEME Group recently deployed its powerful sea-going cutter suction dredger Amazone to Nigeria for trench dredging at the Offshore Gas Gathering System (OGGS) landfall on the southern shore of Bonny Island. The OGGS project is a final piece in Shell Oil's programme to phase out all gas flaring by 2008.

The Amazone on the Hulhumale project in the Maldives prior to mobilisation to Nigeria.
The Amazone on the Hulhumale project in the Maldives prior to mobilisation to Nigeria.

The 6km long landfall is a critical part of the OGGS.

DEME subsidiary dredging International Nigeria, working in a joint venture, is executing the delicate 80m wide and 6m deep trench dredging, embedding the gas pipeline at the landfall. In addition, a 200m long cofferdam will be constructed and eventually removed.

DI Nigeria has assigned the Amazone as well as a crawler crane with vibratory hammer and various pieces of dry earth moving equipment to the project.

The client is Stolt Offshore SA in Paris, working on behalf of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria.

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The Amazone on the Hulhumale project in the Maldives prior to mobilisation to Nigeria.

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