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Supply vessel Grampian Sceptre (sister to Grampian Sovereign) has just also gone on hire to Hurricane and not long left Aberdeen heading for Lincoln Well according to their AIS.
Quoted from March Final Results update..... “However, at our guided production rate of 18,000 barrels of oil per day (which includes a 90% uptime assumption) cash operating costs are expected to be approximately $17 per barrel”
There’s been two offloads since then.
Their last update quoted $17 a barrel, not $22.
S.N has not long disconnected and on her way now.
She is still currently hooked up.
The Stena Natalita is also standing by the AM waiting on weather to connect up. Looking at the forecast she’ll be waiting a couple of days. S.N is the second tanker to visit after the Betty Knutsnen also paid a visit a few days ago.
Second tanker in a week as I predicted the other day ;-)
Betty Knutsen departed AM and headed for Immingham, ETA 30/03 at 0900hrs.
I’m sure any further AIS update will show her tucked in close to AM.
Seawell is currently sat less than a mile off the AM if that means anything to anyone.
Could possibly be, certainly worth keeping an eye on her movements over the next week or so.
Don’t be surprised to see a second one. ;-)
Correct, I believe the guy was sent off as a suspected case and tested in hospital. I think he’d not long arrived on AM so hopefully not long enough to have spread. On the plus side she’s well down in the water and needing a tanker soon.
I’m sure if there’s any chopper watchers on here they’ll know how frequent flights have been delayed and cancelled over recent months even in relatively benign conditions. As for the title stability, i highly doubt there’s any issues with stability or the AM wouldn’t be as sea never mind WOS however she is a rolly pig which can cause operational delays with choppers, supply boats, tankers etc. My initial point was that offload amounts cannot possibly be calculated using the days between offloads theory because there’s so many variables with weather, tanker availability etc. It’s very possible that the AM has had production slowed in recent weeks due to the prolonged weather WOS over recent weeks which in fact has been a bit worse than usuals lately wind and sea wise. Tanker offloads will be very restricted at this time of year due to weather and then when you do get a short weather window tanker availability might be an issue too as everyone will be wanting tankers at the same time.
It certainly explains why they can’t work supply vessels in moderate weather and they’ve also a lot of issues with choppers not being able to land on the AM when the weather is reasonable.
Cebo, I’ve been talking about the weather the last few weeks and the delays it’s caused, even in moderate weather the AM has trouble working a supply vessel due to their rolling and pitching never mind being able to hook up to a tanker. I certainly wouldn’t use the duration between the last offloads as a calculator for quantity of the offload.
P.S, forgot to add that you won’t get an accurate offload/production amount during periods of bad weather for the reasons I mentioned. You’d get a better idea during a period of settled weather where there’s no restrictions on operations.
Due to the prolonged period of bad weather during which there has been several weeks of delays to choppers and supply boats etc it’s very possible that production could’ve been slowed down or even stopped due to being nearing full capacity and unable to hook up to a tanker for an offload.
The AM is notoriously bad for pitching excessively in moderate seas so it’s understandable that a tanker would not have been able to carry out an offload over the last few weeks therefore production would likely have had to be slowed or stopped for a period before the weather settled.