BP awards more contracts for U.K. frontier project

A unit of British Petroleum Co. plc has let more contracts in a development project for its Schiehallion and Loyal oil field discoveries in the West of Shetland frontier of the U.K. North Atlantic. BP Exploration Operating Co. Ltd. let a 20 million ($30 million) contract to the Barmac joint venture of Brown & Root Ltd. and McDermott Marine Construction Ltd. The venture will build a 6,300 metric ton process topsides for the Schiehallion floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO)

April 15, 1996

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A unit of British Petroleum Co. plc has let more contracts in a development project for its Schiehallion and Loyal oil field discoveries in the West of Shetland frontier of the U.K. North Atlantic.

BP Exploration Operating Co. Ltd. let a 20 million ($30 million) contract to the Barmac joint venture of Brown & Root Ltd. and McDermott Marine Construction Ltd. The venture will build a 6,300 metric ton process topsides for the Schiehallion floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel. It will see service in the fields on Block 204/20.

Work will begin at Barmac's Ardersier, Scotland, yard in May. Completion is due in February 1997.

Barmac also will build a 900 metric ton separator package under a 3 million ($4.5 million) contract.

BP also let contract for an undisclosed sum to Trafalgar John Brown Oil & Gas Ltd., London, for design of subsea equipment and wells in the development program.

BP early this month received U.K. government approval for development of Schiehallion and Loyal, which hold estimated reserves of 340 million and 85 million bbl of oil, respectively (OGJ, Apr. 8, Newsletter). The project's FPSO will produce 29 seabed wells completed in four clusters.

Meantime, the FPSO Alliance started work on a contract to design and build the FPSO, billed as the world's largest new-build vessel of its kind (OGJ, June 19, 1995, p. 26).

The alliance is a combine of BP, Halliburton Co.'s Brown & Root subsidiary, Harland & Wolff, Single Buoy Moorings, and Coflexip Stena Offshore.

An integrated team from all the companies will manage the contract.