Santos has let a subsea, engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract to McDermott International. Ltd. for the Bayu-Undan Infill Well Phase 3C project in the Timor Sea (OGJ Online, May 25, 2021).
Bayu-Undan, some 500 km off the northwest coast of Darwin, Australia, and 200 km off the southeast coast of Timor-Leste, is one of Timor-Leste's largest gas fields. Work on Phase 3C began in May.
The McDermott scope involves a tieback of a single in-field well to existing facilities reusing existing flexible flowline with a new umbilical and certain infrastructure.
Santos is operator at Bayu-Undan (43.4%) with partners SK E&S Co. Ltd. (25%), INPEX Corp. (11.4%), Eni SPA (11%), JERA Co. (6.1%), and Tokyo Gas Co. Ltd. (3.1%).
