Technip
awarded two major contracts by Woodside for the Otway Gas Project
in offshore Victoria, Australia
Posted: 25 May 2004
Technip awarded two major contracts by Woodside for the Otway Gas
Project in offshore Victoria, Australia
Technip has been awarded two major contracts with a combined value
of approximately €200 million as part of the Otway Gas Project
being developed by Woodside Energy Ltd in Australia.
The Otway Gas Project includes the development of the Geographe
and the Thylacine gas fields, both located about 70 km south of
Port Campbell, Victoria. The proposed development includes:
- A wellhead platform on the Thylacine reservoir;
- A subsea manifold on the Geographe reservoir;
- A subsea pipeline from the wellhead platform to the Victorian
coast;
- An onshore gas plant located near Port Campbell.
The contracts awarded to Technip relate to the wellhead platform,
located in a water depth of 100 m, and to the onshore gas plant
which will utilize the Technip’s CRYOMAX gas processing technology.
Both contracts include project management, detailed engineering,
procurement of equipment and material, construction and pre-commissioning
of the wellhead platform, the onshore gas plant and onshore pipeline.
These projects will be carried out by Technip’s engineering
centre in Perth (Australia) with the support of Technip’s
regional head office in Kuala Lumpur. The construction in Victoria
will commence in September/October 2004. The production is planned
to start mid-2006.
Woodside Energy Ltd is the operator of the Otway Gas Project with
51.55% working interest. Otway partners are Origin Energy Resources
Limited (29.75%), Benaris International NV (12.7%) and CalEnergy
Gas (Australia) Limited (6%)
Daniel Valot, Chairman of the Technip Group, said: “These
contract awards are an important step in achieving Technip’s
commitment to strengthen its presence in Australia. Through the
former Coflexip, the Group has been very active in this area for
more than 10 years, mainly in the offshore pipeline business, as
again demonstrated by the recent award by Woodside of the Enfield
subsea contract to the Technip/Subsea 7 Joint Venture. The two Otway
contracts demonstrate the benefit, in terms of business development,
of the synergy between the Offshore and Onshore/Downstream Branches
of Technip.”
CRYOMAX is a Technip’s trademark applying to a family of
patented cryogenic processes for gas fractionation to recover C2+
(Ethane) or C3+ (Propane) hydrocarbons from natural gas and refinery
off-gases.
With a workforce of about 19,000 persons, Technip ranks among the
top five corporations in the field of oil, gas and petrochemical
engineering, construction and services. Headquartered in Paris,
the Group is listed in New York and Paris. The Group’s main
engineering and business centres are located in France, Italy, Germany,
the UK, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, the United States, Brazil,
Abu-Dhabi, China, India, Malaysia and Australia. The Group has high-quality
industrial and construction facilities in France, Brazil, the UK,
the USA, Finland and Angola as well as a world-class fleet of offshore
construction vessels.
For more information see http://www.technip.com
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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