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Foss Completes Multi-year Sakhalin Sealift

Waren Groom — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 13:07:58 +0000

The Project:

During the 2016 and 2017 ice-free seasons, Foss completed a major sealift to an oilfield development project on remote Sakhalin Island off the coast of eastern Russia – including delivery of the largest land-based drill rig in the world. Traveling more than 240,000 nautical miles, the project included multiple tows from Texas and South Korea. Fifteen barges, 15 ocean-going tugs, and six shallow-draft tugs safely and successfully delivered 39 modules weighing as much as 2,600 tons.

Services Provided:

International Project Cargo Transportation
Oil Field Services
Project Management and Logistics
Ocean Towing
Naval Architecture and Engineering

Highlights:

Land-based drill rig deconstructs into 14 modules for transportation from Brownsville, Texas, to Sakhalin Island, requiring five tug and barge sets.
Delivered 10 piperacks and 15 processing modules from Ulsan, South Korea.
Provided bathymetric surveying and placed navigation buoys and mooring anchors to account for ice coverage and changing navigable channels.
On-site teams provided engineering and naval architecture solutions, ballasting, stevedores, and local interface in Brownsville, Ulsan and Odoptu.
A dedicated project management team assisted in permitting and local compliance and managed local labor.

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Sealift To The Alaskan Arctic

charityg — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 01:33:59 +0000

The Project:

Point Thomson in the Alaskan Arctic had previously been thought too remote to develop, but Foss was able to meet the logistical challenge and successfully complete two separate sealifts in support of a major oil exploration development project. While operating in extreme conditions of first year ice a meter thick, Foss safely pioneered a new route across the North Slope. For the first sealift, Foss delivered three tank modules. For the second, four tugs, including the Michele on her maiden voyage, towed four barges carrying seven oil field modules 2,300 miles to the Alaskan petroleum field. The modules supply fuel and are critical to the development and operation of the Alaskan North Slope project.

Services Provided:

Oil field development
Ocean towing
Project cargo and logistics

Highlights:

For the first lift Foss provided two barges, two ocean-going tugs, and two assist tugs, including the shallow draft tug Emmett Foss, making its first voyage after its construction at Foss Rainier Shipyard.
For the second lift four tugs, including the first of three Arctic Class tugs built at the Rainier yard, the Michele on her maiden voyage, towed four barges carrying seven oil field modules.
Successfully operating with only 6.5’ of draft at the delivery site.
The first three modules weighed more than 1,250 tons, and the second seven had an individual maximum module weight of 2,685 short tons.
Safely and on or ahead of schedule completed the voyage from Ulsan, South Korea 2,300 miles to the Alaskan petroleum field.

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CD5 Bridge Components Delivered

charityg — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 01:18:07 +0000

The Project:

Foss Maritime transported 11,000 tons of construction materials for the Conoco Philips – CD5 bridge project to build four bridges across the Colville River connecting Conoco’s Alpine Facility to a satellite operation in the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska (NPRA). In voyages in August and November 2013, concrete deck panels and bridge girders were towed from Tacoma, WA to Valdez, AK and stored to await transit over the ice roads to the construction site by Foss’s sister company Carlile Transportation.

Services Provided:

Domestic Project Cargo Transportation
Oil Field Services
Construction Support
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Ocean Towing
Voyage Planning

Highlights:

Worked in partnership with Carlile Transportation and ConocoPhillips to successfully deliver bridge components to a remote, arctic site.
In August 2013, the Ocean Pathfinder towed a 330’ x 86’ barge laden with 6,700 short tons of concrete deck panels and bridge girders from Tacoma to Valdez.
In November 2013, the Lauren Foss towed a similar barge laden with 4,500 short tons of bridge girders, construction materials and equipment.
Specially designed stanchions were engineered to assure proper stowage and sea fastening of roadway panels.

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Jacket Delivered to West Africa

charityg — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:53:43 +0000

The Project:

Transported a jacket, piles and wellhead structure from the United States Gulf of Mexico, to Equatorial Guinea in West Africa, in support of Noble Energy’s Alen Development Project. Upon delivery Heerema Marine Contractors installed the jacket and structures using their deep-water installation vessel the DCV Balder.

Services Provided:

Offshore Structure Transportation
Ocean Towing
Project Cargo & Logistics
Voyage Planning

Highlights:

The Corbin Foss towed a 400′ x 105′ x 20′ barge laden with the jacket, piles and wellhead
The four leg jacket weighed 1,500 tons, the four piles 650 tons and the wellhead structure 75 tons – with a total weight of 2,225 tons
Sailed over 10,000 nautical miles

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Motiva Refinery Expansion

charityg — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:46:25 +0000

The Project:

Transportation of oil-production modules from fabrication yards in Maine and South Carolina to a facility in Port Arthur, Texas in support of a $7 billion expansion project to create the largest refinery in the U.S. and the eighth largest in the world. Foss provided marine transportation services to the Bechtel Jacobs Joint Venture, which was the EPC contractor to Motiva Enterprises LLC (jointly owned by Saudi Refining, Inc. and Shell Oil Company).

Services Provided:

Module Transportation
Sea Fastening Analysis
Cargo Stow Planning
Mooring Analysis
Scheduling & Voyage Planning
Ballasting & Assist Tug Operations

Highlights:

Transported 103 modules, averaging 550 short tons with dimensions of 80’-140’ x 30’-50’ x 40’-65’
The heaviest module transported: 1,100 short tons
14 tows completed
Travelled 51,911 nautical miles over 311 sea days
Total cargo value: $490,000,000

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Rig Tow to Cook Inlet

charityg — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:55:14 +0000

The Project:

Three high horsepower Foss tugs towed the M.O.D.U. Spartan 151 from Esquimalt, B.C. into the Cook Inlet, passing Nikiski, Alaska. The tugs escorted the oilrig over 1,500 nautical miles through the Inside Passage and Gulf of Alaska with the assistance of detailed voyage planning and location specific weather forecasting technology. Foss worked with customer Spartan Offshore Drilling, Inc. to build and install a tow bridle and specialized rigging, which were installed before departure. A Foss Tow Master supervised the placement of the rig upon arrival in the high current environment of Cook Inlet.

Services Provided:

Rig Transportation
Ocean Towing
Project Cargo & Logistics
Marine Engineering
Voyage Planning
Underway Re-Supply

Highlights:

Transported jack-up drill rig, averaging 3,400 short tons with dimensions of 234’x167′ with an airdraft of 240′ and water depth of 40′
Traveled 1,550 nautical miles over 24 sea days
Designed, built and installed a custom tow bridle and associated rigging
Provided a Tow Master for rig placement and the three tugs the
Justine Foss, Jeffrey Foss, and Pacific Explorer
Total cargo value: $20,000,000

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Sakhalin Island Oil Production Facility

charityg — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:50:12 +0000

The Project:

Foss completed one of the world’s largest sealift deliveries over three years. We supported construction of an oil production facility at the northeast tip of Sakhalin Island and transported prefabricated modules to remote construction sites. Foss provided complex logistic strategies to adapt to environmental challenges resulting in a safe completion
of the project ahead of schedule.

Services Provided:

Ocean Towing
Project Cargo & Logistics
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

Highlights:

In 2003, transported 300 assorted pieces of Exxon cargo including diesel oil storage tanks, coil tube drilling components, small modular components for oil field support services and 250 20’ containers from Korsakov, about 600 miles south of the beach site
In 2005 and 2006, transported Pipe Racks, Pressure vessels and 36 prefabricated modules, the largest being 280’ long, 45’ wide, 85’ tall, weighing 2,000 tons from Ulsan, South Korea, where they were manufactured by Hyundai
Heavy Industries
Moved 500 containers from Ulsan to Chayvo covering 1,500 miles and 21 days, amid challenges including ice, typhoons and dangerous sea conditions
Dredged the landing site at Chayvo, creating a pad where barges were ballasted down and grounded for safe unloading of the modules
Deliveries completed in July 2006, in time for Exxon Neftegas to begin production at Chayvo three months ahead of schedule

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Shell Arctic Offshore Support

charityg — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:19:48 +0000

The Project:

Operating in the harsh Arctic environment, Foss Maritime offered a variety of support services to Shell Upstream Americas’ historical offshore exploration in Alaskan waters. Foss transported high-risk cargoes safely, and without incident, through a pristine, ecologically sensitive area. Foss provided rig towing through icy waters with two ice-classed tugs, a purposely-modified offshore warehouse barge, cargo barges, maintenance of vessels at the Foss Seattle shipyard, and general, terminal and harbor towing tugs and services in Alaska as well as the Puget Sound region.

Services Provided:

Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Project Cargo & Logistics
Ocean Towing
Terminal Services
Shipyard Services
Offshore Supply Services
Harbor Towing

Highlights:

Foss converted warehouse barge TUUQ from a deck barge to a combination deck cargo and chemical tank barge with a 300-ton crane
Ice-classed tug Lauren Foss towed the TUUQ and Shell Drillship Noble Discoverer during mobilization, while the Corbin Foss towed a barge containing the well containment system
The Barbara Foss served as the primary towing vessel for Shell’s KRS 330-11, which stored cement and various other cargoes near the operating theater for drilling operations. She was used later during the southbound demobilization of the Noble Discoverer to Dutch Harbor, AK.

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