After eight days of towing, GIANT arrived at the Port of Gdansk. This is the newly purchased LOTOS Petrobaltic platform and the largest of all units of the Gdańsk company. On Saturday, it stood at the Closing Quay in the Northern Port. It's truly impressive.

GIANT set off to the Port of Gdansk from the Port of Esbjerg in western Denmark on September 20 at 7:20, where the Polish crew prepared him for towing operations. The platform was towed by an offshore service vessel (AHTS) Assister. The unit is 90.3 m long, 23 m wide, has 5 010 t load capacity and 6 536 GT. Its bollard pull is 282 T. GIANT was towed at an average speed of about 4.7 in.

LOTOS Petrobaltic bought the GIANT platform in June this year from MAERSK. The unit is 84 m long, 90 m wide and has 24,284.6 t displacement. Its leg length is 160 m. The platform can drill to a depth of 25,000 feet (7,620 m). GIANT was built in 1986 in Japan. It underwent full modernization in 2012. Before the platform reached Gdańsk, it operated in the North Sea as MAERSK GIANT.

Ultimately, the platform will work on the B3 field in the Baltic Sea, about 70 km north of Polish Rozewie.
 
 - After the adaptation work required for class renewal and training of the crew, the platform will begin reconstruction work in the Baltic. Its task will be to perform the planned reconstruction of 7 wells on the B3 field (B3-5, B3-6, B3-8, B3-9, B3-13, B3-14, B3-15) - said Grzegorz Strzelczyk, president of LOTOS Petrobaltic.

Before the platform will be towed away to the workplace, it must be properly marked and adapted to operating in the Baltic Sea. Adaptation work required for class renewal and crew training will be carried out at Naftoport. Then the unit will be towed to the B3 field - Grupa LOTOS said in a statement.

This is another LOTOS Petrobaltic platform in Gdańsk in recent weeks. On September 20, the Gdańsk Petrobaltic platform rebuilt into the Maritime Production Center left Remontowa Shipyard. The unit is already at work in the B8 field.

On September 28, the GIANT platform described above arrived at the Port of Gdansk. This is the fifth unit of LOTOS Petrobaltic.

LOTOS Petrobaltic and its subsidiaries focus on operational and service activities in the Baltic area, i.e. exploitation of the B3 field, development of the B8 field, to launch full production, implementation of exploration projects in the Baltic Sea and land concessions in Poland. At the same time, the company develops its engineering, executive and design competences for the offshore sector, ultimately with the option of providing services outside Grupa LOTOS.


GIANT basic info

    Length: 84.00 m
    Width: 90.0 m
    Legs length: 160 m
    Buoyancy: 24.284.6 tons
    Maximum water depth: 350 ft / 107 m
    Maximum wave height: 27.0 m
    Average wind speed: 43.5 m / sec
    Maximum current: 1.15 m / sec
    Air gap: 21.2 m
    The platform can drill to a depth of 25,000 feet (7,620 m)