CBM Oil Terminal, Luanda, Angola

The CBM facilities comprises of 8 mooring buoys, a pipeline end manifold (PLEM) and twin 20” pipelines.
Puma Energy plans to build a conventional buoy mooring (CBM) terminal for the importation and exportation of liquid petroleum products in Angola. China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau (CPP) serves as EPC contractor for this project. The construction work for the submarine pipeline and multi-point mooring system have been completed in April 2015.
 
The CBM facility comprises of 8 mooring buoys which are individually anchored into the sea bed, a pipeline end manifold (PLEM) which is located on the sea bed and twin 20” pipelines of approximately 800m long which connect the PLEM to facilities on land.
 
The terminal has been optimized for a 160,000 DWT vessel but also have the capability to moor a 225,000 DWT vessel if required. Double closure breakaway coupling will be added. The CBM terminal will be able to unload a cargo of 160,000 tons in 48 hours which include mooring and departure time and this can avoid significant demurrage charges at the terminal. The total estimated through-put of the terminal is approximately 9.11 million tons per year. And the design life for the offshore terminal is 30 years.
 
HalcrowSea’s scope of this design review covers the technical documents and calculation models for the CBM&PLEM and subsea pipeline design of the Phase III and IV Angola Luanda Fishing Port Project, including but not limited to basic design, detailed design, construction design (including trial operation documents), as well as all related design interfaces between contractors and design changes during project execution.

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