Offshore staff
ABERDEEN, Scotland -- BJ Process and Pipeline Services (BJ PPS) has successfully completed a commissioning contract for Technip Oceania Pty Ltd.
Using high flow/high pressure nitrogen converters, BJ PPS performed nitrogen-helium leak testing on all of the Otway Gas Processing Plant's pipework and. The plant and the remotely-operated platform are offshore Victoria in southern Australia.
Technip Oceania is developing the Otway project on the Thylacine and Geographe gas fields to supply up to 10% of southeastern Australia's demand for natural gas.
The primary elements of the Otway project are the onshore central processing plant at Port Campbell, 200 km (124 mi) southwest of Melbourne, and a remotely operated offshore platform. The gas plant and platform are connected by a network of flowlines that will have approximately 220 MMcf/d (6.2 MMcm/d) capacity when operational.
Technical expertise and equipment to carry out the Technip Oceania operation was provided by BJ PPS from its base in Perth, Western Australia.
BJ PPS has also been retained to provide pipeline maintenance and support services on a call-out basis, as required.
Over the life of the Otway Gas Project, the Thylacine and Geographe fields are expected to produce 950 bcf (27 bcm) of raw gas (or 885 petajoules of natural gas), 12.2 MMbbl of condensate and 1.7 million tons (1.5 million metric tons) of LPG.
05/02/2008
