Woodside Energy (NA) Ltd. in October 2006 awarded TDI-Brooks and it local partner, Tibisti Oil, a contract entitled Environmental Baseline Survey, Offshore Libya that also included a geotechnical coring component. The survey involved environmental sampling and geotechnical coring around potential well sites in Contract Areas 35, 36, 52 and 53, offshore Libya. The objectives of the survey was to identify soil types and characteristics at the proposed drilling and anchor locations for well design studies and mooring analysis as well as to collected water, infauna, and sediment samples for a drilling Environmental Impact Assessment.
The cruise was mobilized in Urla, Turkey using the Turkish research vessel, the R/V PIRI REIS (Figure 1). The vessel crew was Turkish and the science party consisted of five (5) TDI-Brooks scientists and technicians. The vessel left its mobilization port of Izmir on November 14, 2006 arriving Tripoli, Libya on the 18th for custom clearances. Acquisition of the program occurred between the 18th and 29th of November. The vessel arrived back in Tripoli on the 29th for clearance out of the country. The vessel left Tripoli harbor on November 30th for the transit to Valetta, Malta. The vessel arrived in Malta on December 1st. Demobilization was completed on December 2nd. The cruise was conducted within the projected acquisition time lines and only had two days of lost time due to weather. There were no HSE incidences.
Figure 1. R/V PIRI REIS at Promenade in Izmir, Turkey.
Box Coring Operations
Sieving Infauna Samples.
