BP Exploration Operating Co. Ltd. has let a $21 million contract to Atlantic Frontier Alliance to begin design and engineering work for a production ship for Schiehallion field.
Schiehallion will be BP's second development in U.K. West of Shetland hot spot. First oil is slated for late 1997.
The concept is similar to the earlier Fionaven development project, which will use a floating production storage and offtake unit linked to clusters of subsea wellhead manifolds. Export will initially be by shuttle tankers.
BP said Schiehallion development would involve a newbuild unit with capacity to store 850,000 bbl of oil. Productive capacity is likely to be 125,000-150,000 b/d.
The contractors' alliance consists of Brown & Root Ltd., Aberdeen, Single Buoy Moorings Inc., Marly, Switzerland, and Harland & Wolff Ltd., which will build the vessel at its Belfast shipyard.
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