ENGlobal contracted for Caspian oil line engineering

May 31, 2011
Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) has awarded ENGlobal an engineering, procurement, and commissioning services agreement relating to expansion of the Caspian oil export pipeline.

Offshore staff

HOUSTON -- Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) has awarded ENGlobal an engineering, procurement, and commissioning services agreement relating to expansion of the Caspian oil export pipeline.

The three-phase award involves two contracts, one from the Russian Federation and one from the Republic of Kazakhstan, with a likely total value of around $86 million over four years.

The 900-mi (1,448-km) pipeline presently takes crude from western Kazakhstan to a terminal on the Russian Black Sea coast. Last December, the shareholders and governing bodies of CPC announced a $5.4-billion expansion scheme, designed to nearly double throughput to 1.4 MMb/d by 2015. This was ratified by shareholders in April.

Increasing the capacity will further development of the onshore Tengiz field, which has estimated oil reserves of 6-9 Bbbl.

CPC’s three largest CPC partners -- Transneft, KazMunaiGaz (KMG) and Chevron -- will co-manage the project, which will involve refurbishment of the existing five pump station, installation of 10 new pumping stations, six new storage tanks and the addition of a third offshore mooring point at the Black Sea terminal.

ENGlobal will probably manage engineering and procurement services in the U.S. on a lump sum basis.

05/31/2011