Subsea 7 Awarded Contracts By BP Exploration For Offshore Project in Azerbaijan

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Subsea 7 has been recently awarded two contracts, together representing a sizeable contract award, by BP Exploration for the Azeri Central East (ACE) project in the Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater Gunashli (ACG) field in the Caspian Sea in a water depth of approximately 140 meters.

The work scopes comprise engineering and fabrication of subsea structures, engineering, transport and installation of spools, the launching of a 16,200-tonne jacket and the float-over of an 18,500-tonne topside.

The contracts will be executed in consortium with BOS Shelf, which will be responsible for the fabrication, logistics and facilities support. Engineering work shall commence immediately from Subsea 7’s office in France and offshore execution is expected to take place in 2021 and 2022.

This project reflects their long-term relationship and early engagement with BP Exploration and builds on Life of Field activities in Azerbaijan.Subsea7 looks forward to increasing our presence in the Azerbaijani market with safe and reliable solutions for its offshore energy developments.

Source: https://www.subsea7.com/

Saipem awarded a subsea contract in Guyana and variation orders on ongoing offshore E&C contracts worth 880 million USD

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Saipem has been awarded a subsea contract by ExxonMobil subsidiary Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (“EEPGL”) for the proposed Payara development project located in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana at a water depth of around 2000 metres. The contract scope includes Subsea Structures, Risers and Flowlines.

Saipem was awarded earlier subsea contracts for the first two phases of the Liza development in Guyana by EEPGL in 2017 and in 2018, respectively.

Subject to government approvals, project sanction by EEPGL and its partners HESS Guyana Exploration Ltd and CNOOC Nexen Petroleum Guyana Ltd and an authorization to proceed with the final phase, Saipem will perform the detailed Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) of a large subsea production facility. This facility will include approximately 130 km of flowlines, rigid risers, associated terminations and jumpers together with the installation of manifolds, flexible risers, dynamic and static umbilicals and flying leads. Testing and pre-commissioning of the subsea field will follow installation.

Source: www.saipem.com

Rosneft and Pertamina JV signed a contract with Tecnicas Reunidas to carry out the FEED project for Tuban Refinery, Indonesia

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PT Pertamina Rosneft Pengolahan dan Petrokimia, joint venture of PJSC Rosneft Oil Company and Indonesian state oil and gas company Pertamina, signed a contract with Spanish Tecnicas Reunidas SA to carry out the Basic Engineering Design (BED) and the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) project for the construction of oil refinery and petrochemical complex in Tuban (East Java, Indonesia).

PT Pertamina Rosneft Pengolahan dan Petrokimia joint venture was established according to the agreement signed in October 2016. Rosneft owns a 45% stake, Pertamina – 55%.

The favourable market environment and the consumption growth prospects in Indonesia allowed the joint working group of Rosneft and Pertamina to develop a competitive conception of refinery/petrochemical complex. The plant is expected to become one of the most high-tech in the world (Nelson’s complexity index 13.1). Design capacity of primary processing is planned at the level of up to 15 mmta, of the petrochemical complex – more than 1 mmta for ethylene and 1.3 mmta for aromatic hydrocarbons.

The project will receive the full support of the Indonesian authorities, both in terms of the necessary benefits and the provision of the infrastructure. Commissioning of the refinery/petrochemical complex is planned for the next 5 years. Due to the implementation of the project, a large new petrochemical cluster in the region of the city of Tuban can be created in the future.

The project is a significant element of Rosneft’s strategy to strengthen its presence in the high-margin market for petroleum-based products in the Asia-Pacific Region. The construction of the plant will strengthen the Company’s position in the Indonesian consumer market and confirm its status as a reliable partner in oil and gas production and refining projects in the region.

Source: https://www.rosneft.com/


China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering picks Galfar for Ras Markaz $16.4m contract

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Omani construction contractor Galfar Engineering & Contracting said it had been awarded a civil and concrete works contract for Phase 1 of Ras Markaz Crude Oil Park by China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Company. 

The contractor told Muscat Securities Market, where it is listed, that the contract was valued at $16.4m (OMR6.3m) and would be completed in 12 months. 

Undersigned by chief executive officer, Dr Hans Erlings, Galfar’s statement said the company expected “reasonable income” from the contract. 

Source: www.galfar.com

McDermott’s Lummus Technology Awarded Petrochemicals Contract in China

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McDermott International, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a sizeable technology contract by Formosa Chemicals Industries Ningbo Limited for the technology license and basic engineering services for a grassroots alpha-methylstyrene (AMS) recovery unit in Ningbo, China. This 10,000 MTA unit will utilize AMS technology jointly licensed by Versalis and McDermott’s Lummus Technology to recover specialty chemicals for niche market sale.

“This award represents the first license of this AMS technology,” said Leon de Bruyn, Senior Vice President of McDermott’s Lummus Technology business. “The commercialization of this technology illustrates the effectiveness of our continuous innovation process. Lummus works to provide our customers market-leading solutions to enhance their competitiveness; the addition of the AMS recovery unit will enable Formosa to recover this specialty chemical with unmatched purity, ultimately enhancing the operating margins while lessening the environmental footprint.”

The award strengthens the ongoing collaboration, dating back to 1995, between the Formosa organization and Lummus Technology. This technology incorporates many decades of operating and design experience by Versalis with Lummus design expertise.

McDermott’s Lummus Technology is a leading licensor of proprietary petrochemicals, refining, gasification and gas processing technologies, and a supplier of proprietary catalysts and related engineering. With a heritage spanning more than 100 years, encompassing approximately 3,400 patents and patent applications, Lummus Technology provides one of the industry’s most diversified technology portfolios to the hydrocarbon processing sector. Versalis (the chemical company of Italian energy major Eni) and Lummus have a long-standing collaboration to develop and offer a variety of petrochemical process licenses.

Source: https://www.mcdermott.com/

Saipem wins $145m contracts from BP for Azerbaijan field

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Saipem, along with its consortium partners Boshelf and STAR GULF FZCO, has won three new contracts valued at $145m from BP towards the development of the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) oil and gas (ACG) field.

The field is located in the Caspian Sea and is approximately 120km off the coast of Azerbaijan. It stretches across an area of more than 4,000km2. Saipem has been a key contractor in ACG field since the 1990s.

ACG is a complex comprising six production platforms namely Chirag 1, Central Azeri, West Azeri, East Azeri, Deepwater Gunashli, West Chirag. It also consists of two process, gas compression, water injection and utilities (PCWU) platforms, equipped with advanced technologies.

Among the three contracts, BP has awarded two contracts for pipeline design, pipelay and associated activities. The other one is for transportation and installation of four jacket pin piles, subsea structure as well as spools.

Saipem said in a statement: “Saipem has obtained one of these contracts as a result of the FEED phase awarded by BP to Saipem’s XSIGHT Division, in consortium with local partners Bos Shelf and Star Gulf, which were engaged from an early stage and on a fast track basis.”

“This excellent result has been achieved thanks above all to collaboration between Saipem’s XSIGHT and Offshore E&C Divisions, a synergy that will be maintained to ensure continuity and efficiency to the execution of the EPCI project.”

Source: https://www.saipem.com/

Galfar wins $60m Saipem contract for Oman’s $7bn Duqm Refinery

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Galfar Engineering & Contracting has been awarded a subcontract worth $59.9m (OMR23m) by Italy’s Saipem to work on Oman’s $7bn (OMR2.69bn) Duqm Refinery, which is being developed through a partnership between Oman Oil Co and Kuwait Petroleum International.

Galfar has been picked to deliver mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and piping fabrication works for Sub-Packages A and C.

The clusters are part of the Duqm Refinery Package 3 – Offsite Facilities scheme that Saipem’s Oman branch is working on.

In a statement undersigned by chief executive officer Dr Hans Erlings, Galfar said the contract is scheduled for completion by 27 November 2020, adding that it expected “reasonable income” from the deal.

Source: http://bit.ly/2mDuRaz

Qatar Petroleum issues EPC tender for liquid products storage and loading facilities of the North Field Expansion Project

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Qatar Petroleum issued “Invitation to Tender” packages for the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) of additional liquid products storage and loading facilities and Mono-Ethylene Glycol (MEG) storage and distribution facilities, which will be located in Ras Laffan Industrial City and will be part of the North Field Expansion (NFE) Project..

Commenting on the announcement, His Excellency Mr. Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the Minister of State for Energy Affairs, the President & CEO of Qatar Petroleum said, “The release of this tender package reflects the continuing progress Qatar Petroleum is making on the expansion of our LNG production capacity. With the volume of associated liquid products the NFE project will generate from offshore production and onshore gas processing, it was necessary to expand our existing storage and loading facilities. The unique approach in our contracting strategy for the multiple EPC packages allows us to match the execution expertise in the EPC contracting community to this specific scope of work.”

The NFE Project involves the addition of four mega LNG trains as part of Qatar Petroleum’s plans to expand the State of Qatar’s LNG production from 77 million to 110 million tons per annum by 2024.
Source: http://bit.ly/md0W93 

Orascom, Siemens selected to rebuild 1.6GW power plant in Iraq

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The agreement was signed with Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity to redevelop the Baiji 1 and Baiji 2 power plants in 28 months.

Egyptian contractor, Orascom Construction is set to team up with German conglomerate, Siemens to revamp two power plants in Iraq, after signing an agreement with the countries’ Ministry of Electricity.

In a statement published on its website, the Munich-headquartered firm said that the Baiji 1 and Baiji 2 power plants, which are located in northern Iraq, have a combined generation capacity of 1.6GW.

According to the contractor, work on the plants are set to be completed “within 28 months”.

Work at Baiji will begin once the contracts are approved by Iraq’s Council of Ministers and a financial agreement is reached with the Ministry of Finance.

Chief executive officer of Orascom Construction, Osama Bishai, said:”Our partnership with Siemens is a continuation of a successful relationship following the remarkable achievements on the mega power projects in Egypt.”

Source:http://bit.ly/2kIgFwx

Arkad-ABB awarded EPC for Bulgaria’s Balcanstream pipeline

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Arkad-ABB SpA, as a member of the consortium led by the Saudi engineering and construction group Arkad, has signed a contract with Bulgartransgaz EAD, a natural gas combined operator, to engineer, procure, construct and fund (EPC&F) a gas pipeline system expansion in Bulgaria. The consortium is made up of Arkad E&C, a US$3 billion engineering and construction group with over 9000 staff, and Arkad-ABB SpA. Overall contract value for the EPC project is €1.102 billion.

Scope of the contract is the construction and delivery of a 48 in., 474 km (295 mile) pipeline linking Bulgaria’s southern border with Turkey to its western border with Serbia. Arkad-ABB will deliver engineering, procurement services, and support to construction, pre-commissioning and commissioning activities for the entire project, through a highly skilled task force mobilised to Bulgaria, and its experienced team located in the Milan head office. The consortium expects to begin work on the project execution immediately after the contract signing and the targeted date of project completion for the whole pipeline system will be 615 days from the letter of assignment date.

Source: http://bit.ly/2lfTOsf