By the OGJ Online Staff
HOUSTON, Sept. 25 -- Unocal Corp. has awarded the Clough Ltd. contracts worth $80 million for work to help develop Indonesia's first deepwater production oil field.
Work is to start immediately on West Seno field in the Makassar Strait between Kalimantan and Sulawesi, with production start-up due in the first quarter 2003.
West Seno field is in 1,050 m of water, 200 km northeast of Balikpapan on the central coast. The field will have two platforms and 48-52 wells, with planned production of 60,000 b/d.
The field development project is worth $344 million and includes a floating production unit of 12,000 tonnes and a tension leg platform of 6,000 tonnes, fixed to the seabed, plus associated offshore and onshore production facilities.
Within the consortium, Clough's offshore division has $70 million of work for the engineering, procurement, and installation of the pipelines and all other installation work, including moorings, piles and tendon legs. Two 62-km lines will take the oil and gas to onshore facilities at Santan on Kalimantan.
