Shell plc has let an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract for Jackdaw gas field development in the UK North Sea, the service provider said in a release Sept. 22.
The contract, valued by the service provider at $75-250 million, covers pipelay for a 30-km tieback from the new Jackdaw platform to Shell’s Shearwater platform, as well as an associated riser, spoolpieces, subsea structures, and umbilicals.
The tieback will use pipe-in-pipe technology designed for high pressure, high temperature use.
The award comes on the heels of the operator’s wellhead platform contract to Aker Solutions in August and the final investment decision (FID) on the project in July (OGJ Online, Aug. 2, 2022; July 25, 2022).
Jackdaw will comprise a wellhead platform, four production wells, and a 31-km pipeline from the platform to the Shearwater gas hub. The project is expected to come online mid-2020s, and at peak production rates estimated at 40,000 boe/d, could represent over 6% of projected UK North Sea gas production in the middle of this decade, the operator said at FID.
Jackdaw field is 100% owned and operated by BG International Ltd., a Shell UK Ltd. affiliate.