land reclamation from Onshore

[tarekzad]

Dear Engineers and Consultants

We are an earth moving company (mainly work onshore earth moving) most of our projects are: roads, dams, cut & fill tunnels, mass site grading, and soil transportation (as a result of cut & fill), in the pursuit of business diversification, we are looking to embark on some land reclamation projects that have high potential in the middle east, projects including development of man-made island ( mainly in the development of oil & gas artificial clusters and islands ) like the projects of DARIN and Munifa Clusters (please see the below references and links)

the Question is: what is the viability of creating such type of land reclamation and man made earth (near to the coastal line) from terrestrial materials (onshore rock and sand ) instead of using the marine work and sea dredging (sea bed sand and silt)?

To learn more about these projects and the nature of the earthwork involved, please visit the following links:

https://www.meed.com/manifa-heavy-crude-programme-2/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw_OnlBB1l8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6dLnH3gy6Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VisDqeLyWhw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAW5rNTZ1oY

Regards;

Tarek



Tarek Barham
+971563188219
tarekdata@gmail.com

 

[EireChch]

Whether your get sand/rock from onshore or offshore it does not really make a difference. It all depends on what's cheapest to construct.

 

[LittleInch]

Don't forget the environmental impact and visual impact.

Very difficult for coastal locations to see how breaking up a small mountain, trucking it and then putting it into a vessel and sending it offshore is going to be economic compared to just sucking it off the seabed local to where you need it. Or permissible from an environmental point of view / approvals etc.

Compaction is a key issue with O&G facilities as settlement can be very problematic when you start drilling wells and laying pipelines.

Just try working out the volumes involved.

And the seabed extraction thing can go 24 hr/day, 365 if you need it to. Not easy to do that on land.



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