By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, June 18 -- Technip Offshore UK Ltd., subsea development contractor for operator Burullus Gas Co. on the West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) concession north of the Nile Delta in the Mediterranean Sea, awarded a contract to Weatherford International Ltd.'s Pipeline & Specialty Services (P&SS) and Norson Services Ltd. to perform pipeline precommissioning services as part of the deepwater Simian, Sienna, and Sapphire fields development project (OGJ, Oct. 20, 2003, p. 9 ).
The work includes pipeline flooding, cleaning and gauging, hydrotesting, and dewatering of a 26-in. export pipeline, a 20-in. interfield pipeline, a glycol pipeline, and flowlines. Offshore phase preengineering is slated to begin in July. First hydrocarbons from Simian-Sienna wells are planned for October 2005. Sapphire, a separate development, is scheduled to tie in to WDDM in 2006.
Burullus is the joint venture that operates WDDM for Egypt's national oil company Egyptian General Petroleum Corp., which owns 50% interest; BG-Egypt SA 25%; and Malaysia's national oil company Petronas Carigali Sdn. Bhd. 25%.
Simian-Sienna is expected to produce 665 MMscfd of natural gas for the Egyptian LNG plant being built 71 miles away at Idku, Egypt, near Alexandria (OGJ Online, July 8, 2003).
