BG Group awards contract for Juno gas project to TechnipCoflexip

12-06-02 BG Group has put the final major contract in place for its Juno gas project by awarding pipeline installation work to TechnipCoflexip. Coflexip has landed an Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation and Commissioning (EPCIC) contract from BG worth £ 30 mm to tieback four new development wells within the project this year and a further three next year.
It will involve the design, manufacturing and installation of 77.6 km (48.5 miles) of pipeline. The lines will be constructed at Coflexip's Evanton spoolbase in Scotland. Another 51.8 km (32.3 miles) of production control umbilicals will also be installed for the project and these will be manufactured by TechnipCoflexip's Duco subsidiary in Newcastle.

Five Coflexip ships will work on the project: Reelship CSO Apache commences pipelaying this month with pipe-trenching being undertaken by the Normand Pioneer. Diving support ship CSO Orelia and construction vessel CSO Constructor will install and test structures, tie-ins and carry out pipe testing between August and October. Next year, the CSO Alliance will undertake tie-in and testing for the three remaining wells.
Heerema Hartlepool is already building a 1,500t minimal facility platform for the Minerva field as part of the project which is to be hooked up to the BP Cleeton installation in 2004, when first gas from Juno will be produced.
Coflexip's CSO Apache, Orelia and Normand Pioneer offshore construction vessels are to work on the single well tieback of the Caledonia field into Chevron Texaco's Britannia platform -- the first satellite hooked up to the Central North Sea platform.

All field development work for the £ 31 mm project in block 16/26 is due for completion for a first oil date of 1 October this year when Caledonia is expected to produce up to 13,000 bpd of oil. This is the first contract for ChevronTexaco completed by the Anglo-French offshore group
The Apache is due to complete laying of the insulated pipeline route this month and all work including installation of the 8-inch and 12-inch 6.1 km (3.8 mile) pipe in pipe system should be finished by September. Coflexip's Normand Pioneer is providing trenching services for the project while the dive support vessel Orelia is providing installation tie-ins and testing.

Coflexip's EPIC workscope includes design, fabrication and installation of the pipeline, which has been manufactured at the TechnipCoflexip spooling base at Evanton, Scotland, Installation of the Caledonia wellhead manifold and subsea isolation valve on the Britannia platform is within the contract scope also, as well as a hydro-electric and chemical injection line to the single Caledonia well.
Prior to its merger, Chevron discovered Caledonia in 1993 north of Britannia. Caledonia contains proven and probable reserves estimated at 10.3 mm barrel of oil, plus another 6 mm barrel which are to be tested in an appraisal well this year.