U.S.-headquartered offshore vitality providers supplier Helix Vitality Options has confirmed the arrival of its purpose-built DP3 semi-submersible vessel to Namibia’s Port of Walvis Bay to organize for its decommissioning project off the coast of Brazil.

The U.S. participant gained a 12-month deepwater nicely decommissioning contract with extension choices for work in Brazil’s Campos Basin in October 2022, enabling the semi-submersible to supply plug and abandonment providers to Shell on subsea wells on the Bijupira and Salema fields.

Helix Vitality Options’ Helix Q7000 semi-submersible vessel is now in Walvis Bay, a port city on the coast of Namibia, the place it determined to make a cease throughout its journey from Australia to Brazil, which is the vessel’s ultimate vacation spot.

Furthermore, the semi-sub will stay in Namibia for about ten days to finish preparations for operations in Brazil, together with eradicating marine development from the pontoons, earlier than it goes to South America to begin its subsequent decommissioning marketing campaign in Brazilian waters.

Whereas confirming the rig’s arrival, the Namibian Ports Authority – Namport highlighted: “The oil rig Q7000 arrived on the Port of Walvis Bay on December 16, 2024, and is presently docked at Berth 8. This go to marks a key cease for the rig because it undergoes hull cleansing operations. After its journey from Australia, the Q7000 is now en path to Brazil, the place it’s set to take part in a major drilling marketing campaign.”

The vessel is predicted to stay beneath a decommissioning contract with Shell in Brazil into 2026, with choices at improved charges. The 2019-built Q7000 semi-submersible vessel, designed to carry out in harsh environments, is alleged to allow riser-based subsea nicely intervention and decommissioning operations.

The unit is able to a variety of manufacturing enhancement operations, well-cleanup, and area growth help. The vessel, which may accommodate 140 folks, comes with a variable deck load capability of about 3,000 metric tons apart from nicely intervention and repair fluids.

Whereas a 600-metric-ton nicely intervention tower with lively and passive heave compensation is on the higher deck, the massive flush deck encompasses a skidding system for nicely intervention help gear and tubular storage. The unit has below-deck twin work-class ROV techniques, bulk fluid storage, and pumping techniques.

The U.S. firm landed a brand new multi-year contract with Shell just a few months in the past to proceed offering nicely intervention providers within the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. As well as, Helix Robotics Options, the robotics division of Helix Vitality Options, just lately secured a brand new job.

That is an unexploded ordnance (UXO) goal investigation providers project for a excessive voltage direct present (HVDC) cable connection within the UK.