Technip-Coflexip
awarded Simian/Sienna contract
Posted: 2 July 2003
Technip-Coflexip has been awarded by Burullus Gas Company an EPIC
contract worth about US $300 million for the subsea development
of the Simian/Sienna gas fields offshore Egypt.
Burullus Gas Company is a joint venture company amongst the Egyptian
Natural Gas Holding Company EGAS, British Gas Egypt and Edison.
The project, which does not require any third party financing,
has already become effective and the work is scheduled to be completed
in March 2005.
This contract represents a new success for Technip-Coflexip in
major deepwater offshore EPIC projects.
It underlines the synergies - on the technical, management and
commercial levels -developed since the merger between Technip and
Coflexip.
It is also a significant breakthrough in the offshore sector in
Egypt: until now Technip-Coflexip had been working mainly in the
onshore/downstream sector, recently completing on a lump sum turnkey
basis the MIDOR grass-roots refinery near Alexandria, as well as
several refining units in Ameriya and Suez.
The project scope of work mainly includes six subsea Christmas
trees, two manifolds (M1 & M2), an electro-hydraulic multiplex
control system, and a methanol injection unit supported by a dedicated
offshore controls platform which will be supplied by a combined
power and communication umbilical from the onshore facility.
It also includes 2 main umbilicals, a 4-inch glycol injection pipeline,
a 20-inch infield pipeline between M1 and M2 and a 26-inch export
pipeline from manifold M1 to be connected into the nearby Scarab/Saffron
fields. The contract also provides an option exercisable by Burullus
Gas Company for additional subsea facilities for Sapphire field
development.
The Simian field which includes two Sienna tie-backs is located
114 km offshore Idku, in water depths ranging from 677 meters to
993 meters. It is expected to produce 665 million SCFD of gas to
be used as feedstock for the first train of the LNG plant under
construction at Idku, near Alexandria.
Under the terms of this contract, Technip-Coflexip will provide
the design, engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation,
testing and commissioning of the Simian/Sienna subsea facilities.
The project will be carried out by Technip-Coflexip's engineering
center in Aberdeen supported by the Group's affiliate Genesis. The
umbilicals will be fabricated by DUCO, the Group's subsidiary based
in Newcastle.
Several construction vessels of the Technip-Coflexip's fleet will
be involved. Egyptian national subcontractors will perform the design,
fabrication and installation of the platform.
With a workforce of about 19,000, Technip-Coflexip ranks among
the top five in the field of oil, gas and petrochemical engineering,
construction and services.
Headquartered in Paris, the Group is listed in New York (NYSE:
TKP) and in Paris (Euronext: 13170).
The main engineering and business centers of Technip-Coflexip 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, and Finland as well as a world-class
fleet of offshore construction vessels.
For more information see http://www.technip-coflexip.com.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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