BP has flagged up the winners of a batch of contracts valued at more than UK £1 billion (US $1.58 billion) for its Schiehallion and Loyal oil fields redevelopment west of Shetland.
The UK major revealed that the latest award has gone to Cameron-Schlumberger joint venture OneSubsea, which won a £65 million ($102 million) contract to manufacture 11 subsea xmas trees at the company’s facility in Leeds, England. This follows awards during 2012 and 2013 to companies (although certainly not all UK-headquartered) at least with premises in Aberdeen, Fife, the Wirral, Newcastle, Leicester, Bristol, Shetland and other UK locations.
BP said it had so far awarded more than £1 billion of contracts in total to UK-located companies to provide services and equipment for the redevelopment project, which will see a new 130,000 b/d FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading) vessel installed in 2015 to replace the existing FPSO, as well as a major upgrade of the subsea infrastructure (first revealed in DI in 2011, see DI, 7 March 2011, page 1).
Apart from OneSubsea, the lineup of other winners include Aker Subsea, Technip, Wood Group Kenny, HPF Energy Service, Stork Technical Services, Subsea 7, Enermech, National Oilwell Varco, Offshore Design, London Offshore Consultants, Petrofac, Oceaneering International, Genesis Oil and Gas Consultants, Cape Industrial Services, Sparrows Offshore Services, Det Norske Veritas, Wood Group PSN, Veolia Environmental Services, Oliver Valvetek, VerdErg Connectors, Emerson Process Management, Sumitomo Corporation Europe, BEL Valves, Earlytower, Oceaneering Umbilicals Solutions and Babcock Marine.
Trevor Garlick, BP’s Regional President for the North Sea, said: “The UK-based subsea engineering industry offers great expertise and capability and is fully engaged in developing highly-advanced equipment that will ensure we maximise recovery from this field until 2035 and beyond. It is great to see more than 30 companies from all parts of the UK working together to contribute towards this important offshore project.”
Partners in the Quad 204 project are: BP (36.3%), Shell (54.03%), OMV (4.84%) and Statoil (4.84%).
The Schiehallion and Loyal fields have produced nearly 400 MMbbl of oil since coming onstream in 1998, with an estimated 450 MMbbl of reserves still recoverable. In July 2011 BP and its partners decided to invest around £3 billion ($4.7 billion) to redevelop the fields, with the new facilities planned to start production in 2016.
A total of 25 wells will be drilled during Phase 1 between the end of 2014 and 2020. Several of these will be drilled before the start of production in 2016. A newbuild semisubmersible drilling rig – the Deepsea Aberdeen – is under construction, and will be dedicated to drilling on the two fields.
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