Safeway passes 10,000 safe personnel transfers with Zero HSSE Reported Incidents at Shell Bonga FPSO

Safeway motion compensated offshore access system of the Dutch Van Aalst Group completed over 10,000 safe personnel transfers for Shell Nigeria Exploration & Production Company (SNEPCo) during a maintenance campaign on board the Bonga FPSO (Floating Production, Storage & Offloading).

A unique 28 metre long walk-to-work Seagull-type is installed on the 95-m long multifunctional subsea vessel “Olympic Triton”, owned by Olympic Subsea ASA, Norway.

The SafeWay Seagull’s standard ten (10) meter vertical height adjustment of the gangway allowed the 10,000 workers and their tools to be safely transferred from the Olympic Triton to the Bonga FPSO and vice versa.

Bonga FPSO is in operation at Shell’s Bonga oilfield, 120 km off the coast of the Niger Delta, covering an area of 60km². The vessel is permanently installed in water depths ranging from 1,000m to 1,125m.