Subsea Consortium Clinches $1.6 Billion Saudi Aramco Contract

Saudi Aramco has awarded the EMAS CHIYODA Subsea and Larsen & Toubro Hydrocarbon Engineering consortium a US $1.6 billion engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for a project in the Arabian Gulf.

The work is for development of the second phase of the Hasbah offshore gas field offshore Saudi Arabia, EMAS CHIYODA said in a news release.

The two will be involved in constructing two streams of three wellhead platform topsides, one tie-in platform with flare platforms and bridges tied together by umbilicals and in-field pipelines, the release said. Interconnecting trunk lines to transport produced gas from the offshore gas field to the Fadhili Gas Plant is also part of the scope of work.

EMAS CHIYODA said fiber optic cables and other cables for power and communication networks will be installed in tandem. The consortium will also be responsible for installing onshore facilities, including the beach valve station, a sectionalizing valve station and four scraper traps.

Onshore engineering and fabrication has already begun, the company said, and the offshore execution phase is expected to begin in fourth-quarter 2017.

“The project is scheduled to be completed over a period of three and half years and will serve Saudi Aramco’s strategy to supply an additional 2,500 MMscf/d of clean natural gas through the Fadhili Gas Plant to meet Saudi Arabia’s growing domestic energy demand,” the release said.

Technip Lands Greater Enfield, North Sea Work

Technip has been awarded a subsea contract, valued at between $279 million and $558 million, by Woodside for the Greater Enfield project offshore Western Australia in a water depth between 340 m and 850 m (1,115 ft and 2,789 ft).

As part of the contract, Technip said it will handle project management as well as the design, engineering, procurement, installation and precommissioning (EPIC) of the carbon steel production flowline, carbon steel water injection flowline, flexible risers and flowlines, totaling 82.2 km (51 miles); 38.9 km (24 miles) of dynamic and static umbilicals; subsea structures and valves; and the transport and installation of a multiphase pump system.

Technip plans to execute the contract from its operating center in Perth, Australia, with support from its Asia-Pacific subsea hub in Kuala Lumpur and office in India. Offshore installation, which will use several vessels from Technip’s fleet, is set for completion in 2018.

Technip also was successful in lining up work in the North Sea. Repsol Sinopec Resources UK Ltd. awarded the company a contract for inspection, repair and maintenance jobs on its subsea infrastructure in the North Sea.

The agreement, as stated in a news release, covers provision of equipment, including diving equipment, underwater intervention and engineering services; onshore management and engineering support, provision of ancillary personnel and equipment to support Technip’s performance of the work; and diver inspection, ROV inspection, maintenance, repair, construction and decommissioning. The contract is for 2016, but it could be extended for two more years.