GE wins $1.5-billion Gorgon field equipment contract

Offshore staff

FLORENCE, Italy & PERTH, Australia -- Chevron has contracted GE Oil & Gas technology to support the Gorgon field development. GE will supply five 130 MW Frame-9 gas turbines for the Barrow Island gas treatment and liquefaction facilities.

In addition, GE Oil & Gas’ drilling and production business will supply a subsea production system to be installed between 60 km and 140 km (37 mi and 87 mi) offshore Barrow Island in 200 m to 1,350 m (656 ft to 4,429 ft) of water. The award falls under a five-year subsea equipment and support services frame agreement signed in May 2008.

GE’s scope of supply includes:
 Five 130 MW Frame-9 gas turbines in a modularized solution
 Three main refrigerant compression trains driven by six Frame-7 gas turbines for Gorgon’s 15 million metric tons per annum (MTPA) LNG
 Six compression trains to power Gorgon’s carbon dioxide sequestration project.

GE will manufacture the Frame-9 gas turbines in Belfort, France and Florence, Italy. The equipment will be preassembled in modules with all controls and auxiliaries, and tested in Massa, Italy. Shipment to Australia is anticipated between July 2012 and mid-2013.

The company will manufacture the Frame 7 mechanical drive gas turbine in Greenville, US. The main refrigerant compressors will be manufactured in Florence and Massa, Italy. GE will string test the complete trains and expects to build and fully test the CO₂ train in Florence, Italy.

GE will supply Chevron with approximately 10,000 tons (9,072 metric tons) of equipment to produce gas from the offshore Gorgon and Jansz fields including:
 Twenty subsea trees - VetcoGray subsea trees with retrievable choke modules to control and manage the production of gas from subsea wells
 Twenty subsea wellheads
 Production controls systems - to monitor and control the subsea infrastructure, controlled remotely from Barrow Island
 Pipeline termination systems, five manifolds, 34 pipeline end terminations, and other structures, including pig launchers/receivers and umbilical distribution assemblies, 45 spools, and 18 multi-bore well jumpers.

GE will manufacture subsea equipment from its facilities around the world, including Aberdeen and Nailsea, UK; Norway, and Singapore. First deliveries are planned for 2Q 2011.

03/03/2010