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Technip’s operating centre in St. John’s will perform the management and engineering of both projects, with various materials and equipment being supplied from within the group and local supply chain.
“Tese awards mark a new step in the
relationship between Technip and Husky Oil Operations, for whom we successfully completed the subsea production system contract for the White Rose field development in 2005,” noted Knut Boe, senior vice president of Technip’s North Sea-Canada region. For its part, Royal Dutch Shell has announced a final investment decision in the Stones ultra- deepwater project, a Gulf of Mexico oil and gas development expected to host the deepest production facility in the world. Tis decision sets in motion construction and fabrication of an FPSO vessel and subsea infrastructure. Te development will start with two subsea
production wells tied back to the FPSO vessel, followed later by six additional production wells. Tis first phase of development is expected to have annual peak production of 50,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) from more than 250 million boe of recoverable resources. Te Stones field has significant upside potential and is estimated to contain over two billion barrels of oil in place. Te field is located in 2896 metres of water,
approximately 320 km southwest of New Orleans, Louisiana, and was discovered in 2005. Te project encompasses eight US Federal outer continental shelf lease blocks in the Gulf of Mexico’s lower tertiary geologic trend. Shell has been one of the pioneers in the lower tertiary, establishing
first production in the play from its Perdido development.
An FPSO design was selected to safely develop
and produce this ultra-deepwater discovery, while addressing the relative lack of infrastructure, seabed complexity, and unique reservoir properties. With an FPSO, tankers will transport oil from the Stones FPSO to US refineries, and gas will be transported by pipeline.
Middle East commissioning contract Shell Iraq Petroleum has awarded a commissioning services contract to Wood Group-CCC (WGCCC), a company equally owned by Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) and Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC), providing operations and maintenance services to the oil and gas and petrochemical industries in the Middle East. Te contract is to commission the first phase of the Majnoon field near Basra in Southern Iraq. Majnoon is one of the world’s largest oil fields, estimated by the Iraqi government to hold about 38 billion barrels of oil. It is being executed by Shell Iraq Petroleum as project operator, with other partners being Petronas and the Iraqi Ministry of Oil. Te one-year contract is effective from June
2013. WGCCC is responsible for the provision of skilled resources, tools, services and test equipment to assist the start-up, commissioning and testing of the new production facilities in the Majnoon field. New production facilities include well site facilities, a central production facility and all new-build facilities and utilities required to operate the field, including pipelines and infrastructure. Tis is WGPSN’s second contract in Iraq in the
EMAS AMC secures major Statoil contract E
MAS AMC, the subsea services division of EMAS, has been
awarded a subsea engineering, procurement and offshore construction contract from Statoil for the Smørbukk South Extension project. Te contract is valued at approximately US$75 million (€57 million). Lionel Lee, md of EMAS, said: “We
have been investing heavily in building up our global engineering expertise as well as technologically advanced and game-changing assets. Tis has borne fruit and I am extremely pleased with this latest win by EMAS AMC. It demonstrates an ever growing
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confidence in our project execution capabilities and validates EMAS’ global subsea strategy.” Discovered in 1985, the Smørbukk
South Extension holds estimated recoverable reserves of 16.5 million barrels of oil equivalent, and will be developed with a new subsea template connected to existing infrastructure in the area.
Te contract scope includes the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of flexible flowlines, tie-in spools, manifold and umbilical as well as associated abandonment and removal
activities. Offshore activities will commence in Q2 2014 and the project is expected to last through 2015. Te contract will be managed out of EMAS AMC’s Oslo office. Svein Haug, regional head of EMAS AMC (Europe and Africa), said: “We are extremely pleased with our involvement in this development for Statoil in the Norwegian Sea. Te Smørbukk South Extension project requires some complex engineering expertise, and we are keen to deliver another successful project to a key customer in the region.” ●
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