By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Nov. 5 -- Amerada Hess Equatorial Guinea Inc. has awarded a contract to Modec International LLC, Houston, to design, engineer, procure materials, and construct hulls, topsides, mooring, drilling riser, and production riser systems for two tension leg platforms (TLP) for Hess's Northern Block G development off Equatorial Guinea.
The platforms will be used to develop the Oveng and Okume-Ebano oil and gas reservoirs 55 km southwest of Bata and 250 km south of Malabo.
The TLPs each will support as many as 18 top tensioned risers and will contain similar topsides capabilities. Hydrocarbons will be routed back to the block's central process facility.
The TLPs are scheduled for installation in second quarter 2006.
