Sembcorp Subsidiary Lands $1 Billion Contract For Culzean

Sembcorp Marine subsidiary SMOE Pte. Ltd. has secured an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract worth more than $1 billion, including long lead items, from Maersk Oil North Sea UK Ltd., according to a news release.

The contract includes the building of the central processing facility plus two connecting bridges, wellhead platform and utilities, and living quarters platform topsides for the Culzean Field HP/HT gas condensate development, Sembcorp said in the release. The facility will be installed at a water depth of some 90 m in U.K. sector of the central North Sea.

SMOE will provide engineering, procurement, construction and onshore pre-commissioning services while detailed engineering work will be performed by a subcontracting partner. The facility will be located in the Culzean Field about 145 miles east of Aberdeen, the release said.

The Sembcorp Marine Admiralty Yard in Singapore will be the core fabrication yard for the project, while the Sembmarine SLP yard in Lowestoft, U.K. will undertake the work scope for a power generation module, two bridges and a flare, the release said.

The Culzean gas field is expected to be capable of providing around 5% of the UK's total gas consumption by 2020-2021.