Offshore staff
Murphy Sabah Oil Co. Ltd. has awarded Technip a contract for the engineering, design, supply, and installation of the Kikeh area development subsea pipeline and riser system. Kikeh, in 1,330m water depth offshore Sabah, will be the first deepwater development in Malaysia and will include the deepest installation of a subsea production system in Asia.
Technip's engineering center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, will manage the overall project. The project will be supported by Technip's office in Perth, Australia, with Subsea 7 support. The total contracted project includes design, supply, and installation of flexible flowlines and risers, holdback anchors, the installation of control umbilicals and manifolds, tie-in of the subsea wellheads, hook-up of the risers to the Kikeh FPSO, and the pre-commissioning of the system.
Technip's vesselVenturer and Subsea 7's vessel Rockwater 2 will be used for the offshore installation. The project will start in 2Q 2006 with first oil projected in the second half of 2007.
The Kikeh field, operated by Murphy as a production sharing contract partner with Petronas Carigali, has estimated recoverable reserves of approximately 400-700 MMbbl of oil.
07/05/05
