Operator Phillips Petroleum Pty. Ltd. has awarded a "substantial" hookup and commissioning contract for the Timor Sea Bayu-Undan gas recycle project to Norway's Aker Maritime AS and its Australian partner Clough Engineering Ltd.
Work on the $90 million (Aus.) contract, won by the 50:50 Aker Maritime-Clough joint venture, will begin immediately, said Aker, with completion for startup scheduled in early 2004.
The workscope covers commissioning of the wellhead platform, the drilling, production, and processing topsides, and the compression, utilities, and accommodation topsides. Work will be carried out in onshore construction yards in Singapore and South Korea.
Activities offshore include the hookup and commissioning of all facilities of the entire field production systems, along with the floating condensate and LPG storage and offloading facilities.
Aker will handle management and execution of the offshore projects, and provide construction management at the three yards where the topsides will be built.
In January 2000, the Aker-Clough JV also won the contract for the floatover installation of the two major production decks for Bayu-Undan field, in Area A of the Timor Gap zone of cooperation. Through Aker Maritime Inc.�the business unit recently sold by the Norwegian contractor�Aker also took part in the detailed engineering and procurement for the $1.5 billion Bayu-Undan development.
