Contract let for field work off India

Feb. 9, 2005
BG Exploration & Production India Ltd. has let a $131 million contract to Clough Ltd., Perth, to expand development of Panna oil field and South Tapti gas field in shallow water off the Arabian Sea off western India northwest of Mumbai (OGJ, Oct. 13, 2003, Newsletter).

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Feb. 9 -- BG Exploration & Production India Ltd. has let a $131 million contract to Clough Ltd., Perth, to expand development of Panna oil field and South Tapti gas field in shallow water off the Arabian Sea off western India northwest of Mumbai (OGJ, Oct. 13, 2003, Newsletter).

Clough will begin work immediately on engineering, procurement, installation, and commissioning of three wellhead platforms and modifications to existing platforms and pipelines. Project completion is expected in 2006.

The contract follows a $215 million contract that India's Oil & Natural Gas Corp. let last month to Clough for the first development of a deepwater oil and gas field in the Bay of Bengal off eastern India.

Clough, calling India "one of the top four countries in Asia for projected domestic energy demand growth," said it has identified $4 billion in offshore oil and gas projects that will be awarded in India during the next 4 years.