Base Marine was engaged by Woodside Energy to provide Marine logistics and supply base services to support the swell drilling campaign in Q3 and Q4 of 2017. Woodside Energy was using the Atwood Osprey to drill the well. The services were carried out without incident and handled cargo units to 12m.
The greater Enfield development is a US $1.9 billion project operated by woodside Energy. The Project developed three oil accumulations, which are produced via subsea tieback to the Ngujima-Yin FPSO. Base Marine held significant supply base and logistics contract with woodside Energy for cargo and personnel movements out of Exmouth, including marine and road transport.…
After decommissioning the Griffin Field, Base Marine’s team of blasting specialists removed all coatings from the MDB’s and modified their weights to ensure level trim and stability. The buoys were modified to optimize their hydrodynamics and asset stabilisation before returning them to water and installed them in the Exmouth gulf along with 49 other purpose-built…
In 2018, Fugro released the mid depth buoys (MDB’s) from the seabed of the griffin field. Once on the surface, these were handed over to Base Marine. Base’s scope was to tow the MDB’s to the Exmouth gulf where a purposely designed and installed mooring could receive them. From there the buoys wre rotated, stabilised…
In Q3 of 2021, Base’s long term business partner Fugro removed the Sinbad platform from the seabed and lifted it into a 100m dump barge with pre-installed grillage. Base Marine brought this barge to The Port of Ashburton. The Platform was cut into manageable components and progressively removed from the barge using a 700T crane…
Base Marine was engaged to support the Woolybutt decommissioning by McDermott Australia in December 2022. Base supplied a heavy specialised trailer and engineered two critical lifts and movements to the Base laydown. Once in the laydown, internal NORM-contaminated sections had to be carefully removed by Base personnel and disposed of before the rest of the…
From 2014-2016 Base Marine supported shallow water dive programs at Barrow Island from our base in Exmouth. The base was required to become quarantine compliant to gorgon standards and our team managed pest control, inspections and washdown of all cargo and vessels that were to enter Barrow Island waters.
Base Marine worked for Atwood Oceanics on all regulatory compliance and permits for their UWILD that was carried out in the Exmouth Gulf. During this inspection/survey period significant modifications were made to the upper sides and large scale maintenance was carried out. This was supported by personnel, contractors and materials transferring from the Exmouth Base…
