By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Apr. 25 -- BG Trinidad & Tobago has let a contract to Technip for work on insulated riser, flowline, and umbilical systems connecting the Eastern Hibiscus and Chaconia subsea natural gas wells to the Hibiscus platform in 500 ft of water off Trinidad and Tobago.
Technip will perform engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation, and precommissioning of the systems on North Coast Marine Area (NCMA) Block 01, 25 miles northwest of Trinidad.
It also will perform the engineering, fabrication, and installation of two insulated steel flowlines with two flexible risers and the engineering, supply, installation, and precommissioning of two hydraulic control umbilicals.
Hibiscus is one of three NCMA gas fields that together have proved and probable reserves estimated at 2.4 tcf. Hibiscus, Poinsettia, and Chaconia fields supply Train 2 of Atlantic LNG Co. of Trinidad & Tobago Ltd.'s LNG complex at Point Fortin (OGJ, Sept. 2, 2002, Newsletter).
BG Group, operator, holds a 45.88% interest in NCMA. Other interests are Petrotrin, 19.5%, and Eni SPA and PetroCanada, 17.31% each.
