Anadarko picks Technip to engineer Gulf oil project
Anadarko Petroleum has issued a letter of intent to France-based Technip for the engineering, construction and transport of a 23,000 ton Truss Spar hull for their Lucius field development.
This field is located in approximately 7,100 feet (2,165 meters) of water in the US Gulf of Mexico.
The letter of intent allows Technip to begin preliminary work on the project, including purchase of long lead items for the hull in advance of the planned sanction date of December 2011.
The Lucius Spar will have a capacity of more than 80,000 bpd of oil and 450 million cubic feet/day of natural gas.
Technip’s operating center in Houston will provide the overall project management.
The detailed hull design and fabrication will be carried out by Technip’s yard in Pori, Finland, where most of the previous Technip Spar projects have been manufactured.
This Spar will be the fifteenth delivered by Technip (out of eighteen worldwide) and demonstrates both the leadership of the group for this kind of floating platform and its ability to tackle ultra deep water developments, the company said.
It also confirms the Pori yard track record expertise and great capabilities to deliver state-of-the-art platforms.
First oil is scheduled for 2014.
The Lucius Spar will be jointly owned by Anadarko (35%), Plains E&P (23.3%), ExxonMobil (15%), Apache (11.7%), Petrobras (9.6%) and Eni (5.4%).
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