International project management and services company AMEC has teamed up with Clough to win a multi-million-dollar contract from ConocoPhillips. The team will provide operations and maintenance services for the Bayu-Undan development in the Timor Sea.

Over the next three years, the AMEC Clough joint venture will service the production facilities at the Bayu-Undan gas and condensate field. The facilities comprise a 14,000-metric-ton drilling, production, and processing platform; an 11,500-metric-ton compression, utilities, and quarters platform; a 1,400-metric-ton wellhead platform; and a floating, storage, and offloading vessel.

The Bayu-Undan field lies in the Joint Petroleum Development Area between Australia and East Timor and is administered by the Timor Sea Designated Authority, which is made up of representatives appointed by both the Australian and Republica Democratica de Timor-Leste governments. The field is holds an estimated 400 MMbbl of hydrocarbon liquids and 3.4 tcf of gas.

The Bayu-Undan contract is the latest in a series of oil and gas service-based contracts for both Clough and AMEC in the Asia-Pacific region. AMEC and alliance partner Fluor announced recently the award of an engineering and procurement contract for theEnfield FPSO for Woodside Energy Ltd., Australia. Clough, through the JV of its fully owned Oil and Gas Division and majority owned Indonesian company, PT Petrosea, recently announced the award of the engineering, procurement, and construction contract by operator BP West Java for the APN field in the West Java Sea offshore Indonesia.

9/6/04