Essar Projects is expected to complete D1 Development Project for ONGC by March 2012.

The project will be completed at a cost of Rs 1,064 crore. The project includes installation of three offshore platforms, laying of subsea pipelines to connect the three platforms to the existing floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) through a Pipeline End Manifold (PLEM). All new platforms, the PLEM and the existing D1 Platform will be connected with a network of subsea rigid and flexible pipelines and composite cables totalling about 14.5 km. The scope of work included EPC, installation & commissioning of the three unmanned four-legged fixed Jacket SMART Platforms – D1B, D1C & D1D in water depths of approximately 90 meters, 200 kms off Mumbai.

D1B platform will receive the 35,000 bopd of crude produced by the D1, D1C and D1D platforms and this will then be transferred for processing to the D1 field FPSO via the PLEM. Each platform has two main parts – Jacket and Deck. The Jackets for each of the three platforms were fabricated at the CUEL Yard in LaemChabang, Thailand and the three decks were fabricated at the Profab yard in Batam, Indonesia. The D1B deck is due to be installed on the D1B Jacket to complete the installation of D1B platform in entirety.