Offshore staff

LONDON --Apache Energy has awarded an $85-million contract to Acergy SA for installation work at Van Gogh field in Australia.

The contract includes installation and tie-ins of flowlines, risers, manifolds, and FPSO mooring on the North West Shelf of Australia in 400 m (1,312 ft) of water. Work is scheduled to begin in 3Q 2008.

"The Van Gogh contract award follows our move to dedicate theToisa Proteus (multi-purpose heavy construction vessel) to the Asia and Middle East region and our increased capacity to engineer and execute construction projects in increasingly deeper waters of this rapidly expanding market," says Jeff Champion, vice president Acergy Asia and Middle East.

07/03/2007