TDW Offshore Services AS has completed a pipeline pressure isolation and joint testing operation at Sarawak Shell Berhad’s gas facilities, located offshore western Borneo in Malaysia.
The work was carried out on Shell’s platform F23P-A, located 80 to 200 km from Miri and Bintulu.
TDW used its SmartPlug isolation tool to isolate a section of a the gas export pipeline that required a new valve. The gas export line forms part of the pipeline that runs from the F23P-A to the E11R-A platform. This network extends to one of the major trunklines connected to an LNG plant onshore in Bintulu.
The pipeline isolation enabled Shell to install a motor-operated valve in preparation for installation of a new compressor module. The affected portion of the gas export pipeline was safely isolated for a period of one month while testing and valve installation took place.
TDW’s isolation operation was carried out as part of a three-year agreement with Shell to provide pipeline pressure isolation and hot tapping services.