Rick Wilkinson
OGJ Correspondent
MELBOURNE, Feb. 25 -- Woodside Energy Ltd., operator of the North West Shelf Venture (NWSV), let a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for development of Angel gas-condensate field off Karratha in Western Australia.
The FEED contract, awarded to Eos Joint Venture—an unincorporated JV of WorleyParsons Services Pty. Ltd. and Kellogg, Brown & Root Pty. Ltd. —is for work on the proposed Angel production platform.
The NWSV is expected to consider final approval of the Angel development in the second half of this year, in line with start-up of the field, which is planned for fourth quarter 2008.
A decision also will be made whether to extend the contract with the Eos JV for the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of the project.
Angel field is in 80 m of water, 49 km east of the North Rankin platform.
The FEED contract calls for the engineering of a remotely controlled production platform and three subsea wells capable of producing 800 MMcfd of gas and 50,000 b/d of condensate.
The gas and condensate will be sent from Angel via a new pipeline connected to one of the existing 135 km offshore trunklines to the NWSV's onshore gas processing plant, near Karratha. The 50-km, 30-in. Angel gas spur line will connect with one of the North Rankin-Burrup Peninsula trunklines.
A final development decision from the six equal-share NWSV participants—operator Woodside, Shell Development (Australia) Ltd., BHP Petroleum (North West Shelf) Pty. Ltd., BP Developments Australia Ltd., Chevron Australia Pty. Ltd., and Japan Australia LNG (MIMI) Pty. Ltd.—is expected during the second half of 2005.
Depending on the go-ahead decision, the Angel wells are scheduled to be drilled in late 2006 or early 2007. Fabrication of the jack up platform will start about the same time.
The field life is expected to be 8 years. Total production over that time will be 2 tcf of gas and in excess of 80 million bbl of condensate.
