By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Nov. 14 -- BHP Billiton Petroleum Pty. Ltd. has let an engineering, procurement, installation, and construction contract to Technip Oceania Pty. Ltd. and Subsea 7 Australia Pty. Ltd. for Stybarrow subsea oil field development on the WA-255-P(2) permit in 800 m of water off Australia's North West Shelf.
The joint venture contract, valued at more than $160 million, includes the design, manufacture, transport, installation, and precommissioning of about 48 km of flexible risers, flowlines, and jumpers. These will be fabricated at Technip's flexible manufacturing facilities in Le Trait, France.
The contract also includes transportation, installation, and precommissioning of 16 km of dynamic and static umbilicals and associated electrical and hydraulic flying leads as well as the installation of a floating production, storage, and offloading spider buoy and mooring system, complete with anchors, all to be provided by BHP Billiton.
Technip's Deep Pioneer construction vessel is scheduled to start work on the offshore program in early 2007.
The Stybarrow project is expected to be the deepest subsea production system in Australia. Atwood Oceanics Inc.'s Atwood Eagle semisubmersible will drill and complete five subsea production wells to be tied back to a newbuild, double-hull FPSO vessel (OGJ Online, Dec. 5, 2005, Newsletter).
