Design and Modeling Pile Breakwater for LNG Jetty at Senoro Field, Central Sulawesi

Abstract

Senoro Gas Development Project is one part of a joint project between Pertamina and Medco E&P in the field of oil and gas exploration, located in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Senoro gas field built a jetty as berthing facility with length around 500 m from the shore. Based on the survey results showed that significant wave height is 2.7 m height at jetty area, while the requirement for vessel berthing larger than 50.000DWT is 0.7 to 1.5 m. Therefore, pile breakwater was planning to build in Senoro jetty area to protect and to reduce the wave height. From bathymetry data shows that the water depth in front of the jetty is between 20-30m. In this case, breakwater conventional or rubble mound type will not be effective for this depth. Thus, pile breakwater is one of the solutions as protection structures for protecting the jetty area from wave attack. The objective of this study is to modeling the performance of pile breakwater to reduce wave height with numerical model. For this study, analysis of the performance of the breakwater is done with numerical model of computational fluid dynamic analysis. The results indicated that pile breakwater was able to reduce the wave height for safety berthing requirement.