May 2009

Mech-Tool has successfully won the tender to provide fire and blastwalls for the Deep Panuke project. This project which is being undertaken by EnCana of Canada (merger of PanCanadian Energy and Alberta Energy Company), consists of the installation of production (and support) infrastructure to produce gas from reserves located in the Deep Panuke field. The project also consists of the transmission of those reserves in the form of natural gas to the Nova Scotia mainland.

The Deep Panuke field lies approximately 250 kilometres southeast of Nova Scotia on the Scotian Shelf. Natural gas from Deep Panuke will be processed offshore and transported, via subsea pipeline, to Goldboro, Nova Scotia for further transport to market via the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline.

Mech-Tool scope of supply has been awarded via SBM Offshore Asia - whose offices are in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Mech-Tool secured the order from international competition based on a very competitive proposal coupled with the technical experience gained with SBM Offshore on the similar YMW - Mopustor project.

Mobile Offshore Production Unit with Storage (MOPUstor)

The MOPUstor concept is a patented design of SBM Offshore subsidiary GustoMSC and was first applied for the development of the Siri field in the Danish sector of the North Sea.

Mech-Tool scope of supply includes 2 blastwall systems to protect the topsides from explosion on the M2 & M3 modules. Blastwall overpressures range from 0.3 Bar up to 0.8 bar with an extremely onerous impulse period of 50 msec and a requirement to also meet a jetfire situation of up to 30 minutes duration.

The blastwalls can be seen on the picture (right) – blastwalls are indicated in purple – either side of the central process module.