Aberdeen-headquartered petroleum service contractor PSN (Production Services Network) has signed up Duffy and McGovern on a year-long contract, with options to extend for a further four years.
The firm will provide its industry-leading modules to Esso Australia’s offshore Victoria Snapper platform.
The Duffy and McGovern complex comprises three eight-man cabins linked together with a laundry module and recreation unit as a five-module complex.
It will be placed on the Bass Strait installation’s existing helideck. A new helideck will be manufactured in Melbourne, lifted onto the platform in modular sections and placed on top of the newly-assembled accommodation block.
Duffy and McGovern arranged shipping transfer of the 24-man sleeping complex and the two additional modules from its manufacturing base in Shanghai, China to PSN’s operations at Port of Melbourne.
The firm is undertaking a major fleet expansion in the region, overseen by operations director George Emslie and working with MML Suzhou, who are providing Duffy & McGovern proprietary DNV design modules under a complete turnkey outsourced contract.
Duffy and McGovern has an extensive fleet based in Singapore and can deliver linkable eight-man modules and customisable engineering cabins on-demand to the entire region at short notice, according to commercial director Craig Russell.
“PSN called on DMAS due to the flexibility of the linkable configuration of its modules and capability to add further modules to the complex, which provides a safer living environment and is fully A60 rated and DNV-approved,” Russell said.
Operations director George Emslie said after shipping the units fresh from manufacture in Shanghai, Duffy and McGovern would undertake a fully functional trial-run assembly of the units in Melbourne to demonstrate onshore the installation and hook-up procedure before dispatching them to Snapper.
“This gives PSN the chance to see the linkable modules in the final configuration and demonstrate the complex’s capability to meet their requirements,” Emslie said.
“It also provides the opportunity to trial assemble the helideck, as it would be installed offshore. This is typically undertaken to ensure all materials are available to minimise the hook-up on the snapper platform.”
PSN Australia has the sole contract with Esso in Bass Strait to provide engineering, procurement and construction for their onshore and offshore facilities in Victoria, executed by the firm’s office in Melbourne and supported by a branch office in Sale and warehouse in Dandenong.
The company employs more than 300 people in Melbourne, 70 offshore and 180 in Sale.
