Weatherford secures Sakhalin II pre-commissioning contract

Offshore staff

Saipem UK Ltd. has awarded Weatherford a pipeline pre-commissioning services contract for the Sakhalin II project on Sakhalin Island, Russia. The work started in 2004 and will be completed in 2006 at a cost of €3.5 million.

Weatherford's pipeline and specialty services group will do the work. The work scope includes project management, initial and final flooding, cleaning, gauging, hydrostatic testing, integrity leak testing, dewatering, drying, and dry air packing of oil, gas, multiphase, and MEG pipelines at Piltun, Lunskoya, and Aniva Bay locations. The company will provide caliper geometric inspection of the pipelines. The operations team will include company trained and employed Russian technicians for the Bluestream project.

The Sakhalin II project is an offshore oil and gas field development on the northeastern shelf of Sakhalin Island. The project includes two producing fields. The Piltun-Astokhshoye is an oil field with associated gas and the Lunskoye is a gas field with associated condensate.

Weatherford installed the Phase 1 development, comprising the PA-A platform and oil export facilities, in 1998. Production began in July 1999. During the Phase 2 development, the company will install the PA-B and the LUN-A platforms with infrastructure and export facilities.

Weatherford will pump crude oil and stabilized condensate together through a single onshore pipeline from the onshore processing facilities to a new oil export terminal at Prigorodnoye. The company will transport gas from the facilities through a single onshore pipeline to a new LNG plant near a new terminal at Prigorodnoye. From the plant, the company will transport the stabilized oil through an offshore pipeline from the terminal to a tanker loading unit offshore Prigorodnoye.

06/09/05