Production • Processing • Handling
Gas from the field flows through a 20-inch pipeline to the coast at Coatham Sands near Teesside. It continues to the gas treatment facility in Teesside via an 11 km buried pipeline, and from there into the British gas grid.
Te pipeline and the gas treatment facility have a total capacity of approximately 11.3 million m3 natural gas.
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Development go-aheads Technip, in a joint venture with Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering (MMHE), has received confirmation from Petronas Carigali for a substantial engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) contract for the development of two gas fields in Block SK316. Tose fields are located approximately 180 km North of Bintulu, Sarawak, at a water depth of 104 metres. Te Technip-MMHE joint venture had earlier
participated in the front-end engineering design competition with subsequent rollover to EPCIC execution.
Te EPCIC contract includes a central processing platform and a bridge-linked wellhead platform, which will be constructed at MMHE’s fabrication yard at Pasir Gudang in Johor, Malaysia, as well as a 75 km pipeline which will be installed by one of Technip’s pipe-laying vessels. Technip says its part of the contract is worth
somewhere between €250 million and €500 million. Meanwhile, in a consortium led by National
Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC), Technip has won a contract from Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO) for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC)
work of Umm Lulu full field development project. Te contract, with an approximate value of US$1.69 billion (€1.25 billion), was awarded at the conclusion of a competitive bidding process in which a number of EPC contractors participated. Technip has a 35 per cent share in the contract. Te contract’s scope of work consists of the detailed engineering, procurement, fabrication, offshore installation, commissioning and start-up of a large offshore super complex comprising of six bridge linked platforms including gathering, separation, gas treatment and water disposal facilities, utilities and accommodation modules, totalling over 66,000 tonnes. Technip will be responsible for the engineering
of the project and will share the procurement and commissioning works with NPCC. NPCC will be responsible for the fabrication and installation of the facilities. Te project is scheduled to be completed in the first half of 2018. Also in the Middle East, Marathon Oil and its
partners have received approval from the Kurdistan regional government for the first phase in the oil development of the Atrush block in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Te Atrush-1 discovery well was drilled in 2011, and is located approximately 50 miles north west of Erbil. Te development project will consist of drilling three production wells and constructing a central processing facility. Marathon Oil and its partners expect to achieve
first production by early 2015 with an estimated initial gross production of approximately 30,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd). Te approval of the field development plan for phase one provides for a 25-year production period. ●
North Sea investment strengthens OMV’s upstream portfolio O
MV has reached an agreement with Statoil acquire assets in
Norway and the UK. Under the deal, OMV acquires 19 per cent of the producing Gullfaks field and 24 per cent of the Gudrun field; both oil and gas fields are offshore the Norwegian continental shelf. In addition, OMV will take over 30 per cent in Rosebank and 5.877 per cent in Schiehallion, both fields located west of the Shetland Islands. Te agreement with Statoil also involves options for 11 exploration licenses. An integral part of the transaction
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is an R&D partnership with Statoil to develop new technologies for the exploration of gas and oil from mature fields. OMV says its comprehensive expertise in onshore enhanced oil recovery is an ideal complement to Statoil’s experience in offshore enhanced oil recovery. “Te transaction will provide a huge boost to OMV’s strategy and will be a key factor in achieving our 2016 targets. Furthermore, the agreement to partner with Statoil on exploiting a number of exploration activities in the North Sea and west of Shetland area as
well as the agreement to jointly work on enhanced oil recovery research adds both to our know how as well as the size of our exploitable asset base in the long term,” said OMV ceo Gerhard Roiss.
Tis acquisition will see OMV’s 2P
reserves (2P = proven and probable) increase by about 320 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) from the current levels of around 1.7 billion boe. Production is set to rise by 40,000boe/d by 2014 with a target increase to approximately 58,000boe/d by 2016. ●
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