Projects

Neptune Energy Group, London, and Algeria’s Sonatrach have started natural gas production as part of the commissioning of the partnership’s Touat project in the Sbaa basin, 1,500 km southwest of Algiers, near Adrar.

The development will produce about 450 MMcfd of gas at plateau.

Touat comprises eight gas fields and a gas processing plant.

Project development involved drilling 18 development wells, along with building a road, aircraft runway, living quarters, gathering network, and gas treatment complex, as well as installation of a connection to the main GR5 pipeline, built by Sonatrach, to collect the gas from southwest Algeria to bring to Hassi R’Mel, about 800 km north.

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Gorgon is one of the world’s largest LNG projects and the largest single resource project in Australia’s history.

Located on Barrow Island – a Class A Nature Reserve – Gorgon comprises a three-train, 15.6 million tonnes per annum LNG facility and a domestic gas plant with the capacity to supply 300 terajoules of gas per day to Western Australia.

Works comprise construction of the on-site utilities infrastructure, including a new desalination plant, relocation of an existing water treatment facility, new waste water treatment plant, new diesel power station and associated utility corridor and connections.

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• Cable Tray (SS)

The Shah Deniz Field is located approximately 90km offshore in the Azerbaijan sector of the South Caspian Sea, in water depths ranging from 50m to 500m. It is a high pressure, sweet gas condensate field, with estimated reserves of nearly 1 trillion cubic metres of gas and 2.4 billion barrels of condensate.

Production from the Shah Deniz Field commenced at the end of 2006, with the initial development known as Shah Deniz Stage 1 (SD1), which incorporated an 8.6 bcma capacity output from a platform located in the NE portion of the field and a new onshore terminal at Sangachal.

The Shah Deniz Stage 2 development (SD2), will result in the installation of a further 16 bcma capacity and will build on SD1 to develop the remaining gas resource. This will be accompanied by a major extension to the onshore terminal and the expansion of the existing South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) to carry the additional sales gas to the Georgia-Turkey border. First gas from SD2 is anticipated in 2018. The overall cost of the project will be in the region of $20bn.

Vantrunk are supplying the Speedway SW4 & SW6 Cable Ladder system, Heavy Duty Cable Tray system and Intelok Steel Framing system directly to BP. This follows on the back of Vantrunk’s successful working relationship with BP in Azerbaijan over the previous 12 years.

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• Intelok Channel (HDG & SS)

Azeri Central East (ACE) project is located in the ACG contract area, which is situated 120km east of Baku. The ACG contract area is spread across 432km² in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea.

The field is being developed in five phases known as Early Oil Project (EOP), ACG Phases one, two and three, and Chirag Oil Project (COP).

The contract area is installed with eight offshore platforms, including six production platforms and two processing and utility platforms.

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• Speedway Ladder
• Intelok Channel (SS)

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SCP is a 692 km long (443 km in Azerbaijan and 249 km in Georgia) and 42 inch diameter pipeline. The pipeline was built to transport natural gas from Shah Deniz field to Georgian-Turkish border. The annual transportation capacity is 7.41 bcm.

The expansion implies the construction of a new 48 inch pipeline looping SCP at Azerbaijani and Georgian territories as well as the construction of two new compressor stations in Georgia. New pipeline is approximately 489 km long (424 km in Azerbaijan, 63 km in Georgia and 2 km in TANAP interconnection). The new pipeline started operating on 30 June 2018.

As a result of the expansion, SCP’s throughput capacity is expected to reach approximately 23.4 bcma, which would triple the current overall transportation capacity of the system. SCP’s capacity may be further expanded to 31 bcma, if needed. The pipeline has been linked to TANAP at the Georgian-Turkey border, thus enabling the transportation of natural gas further to Turkey and Europe.

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The Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) field lies 120km off the coast of Azerbaijan in 120m of water and contains 5.4 billion barrels of recoverable oil.

Chirag-1 is an offshore production, drilling and quarters (PDQ) platform located 120km east of Baku in the Caspian Sea. The Chirag facilities include a 24-slot PDQ platform with water-injection equipment, a 176km-long 24in oil pipeline to the receiving terminal at Sangachal, a 48km-long 16in gas pipeline to the oil rocks, a 12km-long 18in gas pipeline to Central Azeri, and a compression and water injection platform. The Chirag platform has both production and water-injection wells, which will increase oil recovery.

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FPSOs (platforms that produce, store and offload oil) P-75 and P-77, with production capacities of 150,000 barrels per day each, will be deployed in Transfer of Rights blocks, in the Santos Basin pre-salt layer, along with two other similar units, the P-74 and P-76. The RIG Consortium will be in charge of building the modules of and integrating both platforms. The work will be done at the Honorio Bicalho shipyard, in Rio Grande.

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Located in the northeastern portion of the Campos Basin, 125 km off the Brazilian coast, Roncador covers an area of approximately 110 square kilometers and is comprised of two main blocks, saturated with 18 to 31° API oil. Deployed at a water depth of 1,600 meters, P-62 is an integral part of the Module 4 project for the Roncador field. Twenty-two wells, 14 oil and gas production and eight water-injection, will be connected to the platform.

The platform, also known as a floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) has capacity to process up to 180,000 barrels of oil and 6 million cubic meters of natural gas per day.

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Parque das Baleias, also known as the Whale Park, is a cluster of seven deep-water oil and gas fields in the northern Campos Basin, offshore Espírito Santo, Brazil.

Owned and operated by state-controlled Petrobras, the Parque das Baleias area includes the Jubarte, Baleia Azul, Baleia Franca, Baleia Anã, Cachalote, Caxaréu and the Pirambú fields that have both pre-salt and post-salt reserves. The area is estimated to hold more than two billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) recoverable reserves.

The current aggregate production from the Parque das Baleias cluster is estimated to be 222,000 barrels of oil and six million cubic metres (mcm) of gas per day. The offshore field complex with a total of four floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) units, reached the cumulative production of one billion barrel of oil equivalent (boe) in May 2020.

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Husky Energy, on behalf of the West White Rose Project (WWRP) proponents, Husky, Suncor Energy Inc. (Suncor) and Nalcor Energy – Oil and Gas Inc. (Nalcor), is leading the development of the WWRP. The White Rose field and satellite extensions are located in the Jeanne d’Arc Basin, 350 km east of Newfoundland and Labrador in approximately 120 m of water.

The West White Rose Project will be developed through a fixed drilling platform consisting of a concrete gravity structure (CGS), built by the SNC-Lavalin- Dragados-Pennecon General Partnership (SDP), and an integrated topsides facilities. SDP will be constructing the CGS in the Argentia Graving Dock, located on the Argentia Peninsula approximately 130 km from St. John’s, NL.

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• Cable Tray (SS)

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The project includes engineering, procurement, installation, and pre-commissioning of subsea flowlines, vent lines, and a pipeline-end manifold for connection with six subsea wells in the R-Cluster field in water depths of up to 6,890 ft (2,100 m).

Its scope includes in-field pipelines, a Monoethylene Glycol line, pipeline-end terminals, jumpers, risers, the umbilicals system, and modification of the control riser platform to interface with the new facilities.

Reliance has an option to extend the program to five to seven more subsea wells for the Satellite-Cluster (S-Cluster), with two additional subsea structures and flowlines in water depths of 4,593-5,905 ft (1,400-1,800 m).

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The West Nile Delta (WND) project involves the development of gas and condensate fields located within the North Alexandria (N Alex) and West Mediterranean Deepwater concessions in the Mediterranean Sea, approximately 65km to 85km off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt.

BP and DEA will develop five trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas and 55 million barrels (mmbbl) of condensate reserves from three phases of  the WND project. The new fields and future exploration activities are expected to further boost production from WND by an additional five tcf to seven tcf.

The gas development project is being carried out in three phases. The first phase involved the development of Taurus and Libra gas fields, and the second saw the development of the Giza and Fayoum fields.

Raven field will be developed in the third phase, while the Maadi, Viper, Ruby, Polaris and Hodoa discoveries will be developed in later phases.

The West Nile Delta project is being co-developed by BP (82.75%) and DEA (Deutsche Erdoel AG) (17.25%).

A total of nine production wells were drilled for the Taurus and Libra gas fields during the first phase. The wells are connected to an offshore infrastructure located at water depth ranging between 60m to 800m, via a 42km-long tie-back.

The subsea system for the Taurus and Libra production facility includes two subsea manifolds, 79km-long gas pipeline, 68km of control umbilicals and flexible well flow-lines of 24km.

The second stage of the WND project includes the development of eight production wells for the Giza and Fayoum gas fields. The fields have an initial production capacity of 400MMscfd, which will be further increased up to 700MMscfd by April 2019.

The Taurus and Libra fields are connected to existing Burullus facilities operated by Burullus Gas (BG), whereas the Giza and Fayoum fields are tied back to the existing Rosetta plant onshore, which is modified to accommodate additional production. The Raven field will be connected to a new onshore plant adjacent to the existing Rosetta plant.

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BorWin3 is the third project to be implemented by TenneT off the coast of Borkum using direct current technology in addition to the BorWin1 and BorWin2 grid connection projects. At the Emden/Ost site, TenneT set up a converter station with a transformer station to convert the energy generated at sea from direct current into three-phase current and feed it into the power grid from there.

In total, a distance of 160 kilometers has to be bridged, whereby the wind power is first transported to Hamswehrum via a 130-kilometer long submarine cable to the west of Borkum and from there via a 30 kilometer long underground cable to Emden/East.

The platform will house a Siemens 900 megawatt HVDC station that will convert the alternating current produced by the wind turbines to direct current before transmitting it onshore to the German national grid, from where it will supply more than one million German households with clean electricity from wind power. It will be one of the world’s heaviest and largest HVDC platforms, with the topside six storeys high, weighing in at 20,000 tonnes and about the size of half a football pitch.

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Samawa combined-cycle power plant is a 750MW gas-fired power project being developed near Samawah City, in southern Iraq. The Ministry of Electricity of Iraq is the project developer and operator.

Site mobilisation activities for the project were started in August 2017 and the first structural concrete was poured in December 2018. The gas-fired project is expected to commence operations in 2020.

Designed to operate at a thermal efficiency rate of more than 50%, the combined-cycle power plant is expected to offset 32 million tonnes (Mt) of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions, over an estimated operational life of 25 years.

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Bul Hanine field is located roughly 120km to the east of the Qatari coastline and currently produces 40,000bpd.

Qatar Petroleum, the field operator, announced plans to redevelop the field  to prolong the field life and increase production. The redevelopment is aimed at increasing the production to 90,000bpd to counter its declining production.

Plans for the field redevelopment involve an investment of QAR40bn ($11bn) making it one of the biggest projects to be managed and executed by Qatar Petroleum.

The Bul Hanine redevelopment project involves both offshore and onshore facilities that include new central production facilities and a onshore gas liquids processing facility at Mesaieed.

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The OPF is located off the north eastern shore of Sakhalin Island, 7 km inland from the landfall of the offshore gas pipelines from the Lunskoye-A platform. The asset occupies the territory of over 62 000 m2.

The primary function of the OPF is to process gas and condensate received from the Lunskoye field for the pipeline transportation to the oil export terminal and LNG plant at Prigorodnoye production complex. It also receives oil and gas streams from the PA-A and PA-B platforms for onward transportation by pipeline to oil export terminal. For that purpose booster pumps are used at the OPF with a capacity to pump up to 195,000 b/d.
At full capacity the asset is capable of processing 1,800 mln scf/d of gas (51 mln m3/day) and about 60,000 b/d of condensate/oil (9,500 m3/day).
The four gas turbines that power the OPF can each produce 25 MW. The amount of energy per hour generated by the turbines could provide enough electricity to power the Sydney Opera House for two days running.
All process systems at the OPF were brought into operation in 2008.

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Marjan Increment Development is a megaproject located in the Arabian Gulf, off Saudi Arabia’s East Coast, that will increase production from 500,000 barrels per day of oil to 800,000 bpd.

The contract includes the fabrication of three tie-in platforms and seven wellhead platforms with a total weight of 55,700 t.

McDermott’s scope includes the installation of subsea trunk lines and in-field pipelines in excess of 540km, and the laying of more than 90km of subsea cables.

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Tortue field development project is a gas field project found in the Greater Tortue-Block area, the site lies between St. Louis Profond block off-shore Senegal and the C8 block in offshore Mauritania. Experts estimate this field to contain approximately 15 million ft cubic of recoverable gas.

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The project is located at and integrated with the existing Singapore Chemical Plant on Jurong Island, providing feedstock, operating and investment synergies with both the chemical plant and the Singapore Refinery.

The project will employ ExxonMobil’s latest proprietary technologies and will produce a range of high value products to meet growing demand. The technology to produce high value products, including Vistamaxx™ specialty elastomers and Exceed™ polyethylene will be used for the first time by ExxonMobil in Asia.

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The Cassia Compression project will enable BPTT to access and produce low pressure gas reserves from currently-producing fields in the Greater Cassia Area, maximizing recovery from these existing resources.

The project was sanctioned in 2018. It will involve the construction of a new platform, Cassia C, BPTT’s 16th offshore facility.

Gas production from the Greater Cassia Area will be routed to Cassia C for compression before being exported via the adjacent existing Cassia B platform. Cassia C will be located 57 kilometres off the south-east coast of Trinidad. The platform will have a throughput capacity of 1.2 billion standard cubic feet of gas a day (bcfd).

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The first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in over 20 years; Hinkley Point C in Somerset will provide low-carbon electricity for around 6 million homes, create thousands of jobs and bring lasting benefits to the UK economy.

Marking a significant milestone in the revitalisation of our nuclear power industry, Hinkley Point C will make a major contribution to the UK’s move to reduce carbon emissions. The electricity generated by its two EPR reactors will offset 9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year, or 600 million tonnes over its 60-year lifespan.

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Tees Renewable Energy Plant (Tees REP) is a 299MW biomass-powered, combined heat and power (CHP) plant developed by MGT Teesside, a subsidiary of MGT Power. Tees REP will generate approximately 2.4TWh of electricity a year, enough to power 600,000 homes, which is equivalent to annually displacing 1.2Mt of CO_₂ emissions.

Major infrastructure will include a single 299MW circulating fluidised bed (CFB) boiler, a steam turbine, a generator, air-cooled condensers (ACCs), a selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR) unit, fabric filters, a CFB exhaust stack, a fuel storage area, and electrical transformers and switchgear buildings.

The CFB exhaust stack will be 95m high, the CFB boiler house will be 71m high, and the pellet storage building and ash silos will be approximately 65m high.

The Teesside renewable power facility will further accommodate ancillary plant and equipment, additional necessary buildings, including administration offices, workshops and stores, and an approximately 50,000t/y wood chip dryer.

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• Speedway Ladder (HDG)

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Galloper Offshore Wind Farm is a 353MW wind farm project, located 30km off the coast of Suffolk. Galloper consists of 56 offshore turbines located at a water depth of up to 36 metres, with blades that stretch 195 metres into the skies – twice as tall as Big Ben – at their highest point.

Each year Galloper Offshore Wind Farm’s 56 turbines generate enough green electricity to power the equivalent of more than 380,000 British homes. A 60-strong team operates and maintains the wind farm from a state-of-the-art, purpose-built Operations & Maintenance facility in Harwich International Port.

Harwich was chosen as the ideal location for the base because of its distance from the wind farm; existing port infrastructure; numerous local suppliers and contractors, and excellent transport links both national and international.

The new base includes a control room for managing the wind farm 24/7, a purpose-built pontoon for the crew transfer vessels, plus warehousing and office facilities, and a gym.

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The Stella and Harrier fields will be developed via subsea tieback to the FPF1 vessel. First oil from the hub is forecast at an initial annualised average rate of 30,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

Petrofac’s Offshore Engineering & Operations business will carry out modification and upgrade works to the FPF1 ahead of its deployment on the Greater Stella Area development. Petrofac will subsequently provide Duty Holder services to the FPF1 on a life of field contract. In accordance with its standard accounting policy, Petrofac will book the initial five years’ of estimated contract revenues into backlog in relation to the upgrade and Duty Holder contracts, which equates to US$540 million.

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The Cygnus gas field is situated within UK Continental Shelf blocks 44/12a and 44/11a in 23m of water. The field is operated by Engie (previously GDF Suez).

The Cygnus field is one of the largest gas fields in the southern North Sea and the largest to be discovered in the last 25 years within the Southern Gas Basin.

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• Cable Tray (SS)

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Nexen Petroleum’s Golden Eagle Area Development (GEAD) project includes development of the Golden Eagle and Peregrine (formerly Pink) fields in blocks 20/1, 20/1N and 14/26a of the North Sea, approximately 110km north-east of Aberdeen, UK. The water depth in the region is between 89m and 139m.

The wellhead platform measures 50m x 50m and weighs 4,000t. It is supported by a 6,000t steel piled jacket and includes 21 well slots.

The PUQ platform weighs 10,000t and measures 85m x 40m. It includes facilities for processing hydrocarbon fluids, an accommodation module and utility systems.

The topsides of the platform are supported by a four-legged jacket weighing 6,000t. The platform’s deck includes a separate living quarters to accommodate 140 personnel.

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• Speedway Ladder
• Cable Tray (SS)

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