A thousand eyes staring at you - Kumul Oil Platform PNG

Work Scope - The Kumul Oil Platform is located in the gulf of Papua New Guinea. A short helicopter trip from the land based camp Kopi or a slightly longer steam in a tug boat from Port Moresby. Kumul is an oil pumping platform with a SPM (single point mooring) which connects with the tanker for the offloading of oil.The job requires annual inspection all underwater components including pipelines, CP (cathodic protection) attachment points, replacement of the export floating hose, changing out of broken/damaged SPM wires and chains, ACFM (alternating current field measurement) on selected platform welds.

Equipment - ACFM probe, UT (ultrasonic thickness) meter, CP meter, high pressure water jetting, hydro torque spanner, broco cutting, video survey, general visual inspection

Highlight - Being the only structure for miles this place is teaming with fish and big fish at that. Although lucky/unlucky enough not to have a close encounter with some of the resident sharks there are plenty of other animals to keep your eyes busy.Maybe a travelling whale shark or there are plenty of metre plus fingermark, barracuda, giant trevally, spanish mackerel and the elusive black bass. These all keep an eery close watch on you as you swim around their home to depths close to 50m.