| Description | Version 3. Study investigating the technical options, costs and schedules for various methods of bypassing MCP-01. The report comprises: Introduction; Design Data, giving the pipeline specifications; Requirements and Assumptions, outlining Total's criteria for the project; Construction Options, outlining the advantages and disadvantages of different methods; Pre-tow Preparation, which concerns the preliminary survey work; Bundle Installation Methodology, outlining various methods of positioning the pipeline bundles; Tie-in Method, describing how the bypass pipelines will be connected to the existing pipelines; Tie-in Considerations, such as location of the join and safety factors; Decommissioning, detailing how the redundant pipeline will be dealt with; Pipeline Shutdown, examining the impact on shutdown times each bypass method will have; and Bypass Costing. With five appendices: Sketches, Schedules, Stolt Offshore Hyperbaric Welding; Mechanical Connector Data Sheets; and Equipment Information Sheets. |