Kishorn Port Welcome’s Northern Producer FPF
Kishorn Port has welcomed Northern Offshore Company, Northern Producer Floating Production Facility (‘FPF’) to the port for a period of anchorage.
The Northern Producer was located in the Northern North Sea sector and until it’s recent disconnection provided the export route for oil produced from a number of fields. The FPF will remain within the port until such time as arrangements are made for the platform’s redeployment or, alternatively, it’s decommissioning (deconstruction and recycling).
Director Alasdair Ferguson said: ‘We’re delighted Northern Offshore has chosen to bring the FPF to anchorage at Kishorn. This is a further endorsement of the services the port offers to the oil and gas sector and builds on a number of oil and gas and decommissioning projects which have used our facilities over the past 18 months.
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Kishorn Port Limited is a joint venture between Corpach-based Ferguson Transport and Shipping and Aberdeen-based Leiths (Scotland) Limited.
The port is located on the west coast of Scotland within the Wester Ross area.
The original Kishorn Yard was developed as a manufacturing and fabrication yard for oil platforms in the 1970’s. The yard was owned by Howard Doris Ltd who operated it from 1975 to 1987. The dry dock was constructed specifically for the fabrication of the Ninian Central platform, a 600,000 tonne concrete structure. In 2019 the port hosted the first major project at Kishorn for nearly 20 years, the mobilisation of the Ocean Great White drilling rig. In May 2020 the MV Kaami cargo vessel was decommissioned within the dry dock with over 99% of the vessel being reused or recycled. Also in 2020 the Voyageur Spirit FPSO came to Kishorn for a period of preservation and maintenance, followed by the Banff FPSO which has been anchored within the loch.
For further information, please contact enquiries@kishornportltd.com FAO: Alasdair Ferguson and Colin Ortlepp, Co-Directors of Kishorn Port Ltd.
