LNG

May 14 (LNGJ) - TechnipFMC has been awarded a significant integrated engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract by Woodside Energy to support ongoing offshore gas field production for the Pluto LNG export plant in Western Australia. The award follows TechnipFMC’s integrated front-end engineering and design study for the project.

   The company said it would design, manufacture and install the subsea production system, flexible pipe and umbilicals for the Xena gas field infill well tied back to existing subsea infrastructure previously supplied by TechnipFMC. “We are proud to be delivering a fully integrated project from concept to execution,” said Jonathan Landes, President of Subsea at TechnipFMC.

April 16 (LNGJ) - TechnipFMC, the US oil and gas services company, has been awarded a large contract by ExxonMobil Corp. to supply subsea production systems for the Whiptail project in the Stabroek Block of the South American nation of Guyana. TechnipFMC said it would provide project management, engineering and manufacturing to deliver 48 subsea trees and associated tooling, as well as 12 manifolds and associated controls and tie-in equipment.

   “ExxonMobil Guyana will utilize our Subsea 2.0 systems and manifolds, which help provide schedule certainty,” said Jonathan Landes, President of Subsea at TechnipFMC. “We have already delivered more than 100 subsea trees for ExxonMobil Guyana - the location of one of the world’s fastest developing basins - and we look forward to deepening our relationship with them through Whiptail,” Landes added. TechnipFMC stated that it currently employs around 140 Guyanese and expects to continue to hire and train additional local staff in support of this contract.

June 15 (LNGJ) - TechnipFMC, the Houston-based subsea and energy technologies company, has been awarded a significant contract by Australian LNG plant operator Woodside Energy to engineer, procure, construct and install flexible pipes and umbilicals for the Julimar Phase 3 development offshore Western Australia. The Company will tie back four subsea gas wells in the Carnarvon Basin to the existing Julimar subsea infrastructure producing to the platform for Wheatstone LNG.

   “We have a strong history of solid project execution with Woodside as demonstrated by the successful delivery of the Pyxis, Lambert Deep, and Greater Western Flank Phase 3 projects,” said Jonathan Landes, President of Subsea at TechnipFMC. “We look forward to continuing this collaborative relationship with this award on Julimar Phase 3 as part of our framework agreement,” Landes added.

TechnipFMC, the US oil and gas services company based in Houston, was awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract by UK major Shell plc for the Jackdaw gas development in the UK North Sea to help offset rising LNG imports.

The company said the contract, whose value was not disclosed, covered pipelay for a 30 kilometres tieback from the new Jackdaw platform to Shell’s Shearwater platform, as well as an associated riser, spool-pieces, subsea structures and umbilicals.

The tieback will use pipe-in-pipe technology, which is designed for high-pressure, high-temperature usage.

“We’re excited to embark on this significant project together in the UK North Sea,” said Jonathan Landes, President, of Subsea at TechnipFMC.

“Our strong technical record and our ability to design, engineer, construct and install were key to our success in winning this award,” stated Landes.

Shell in the UK took the final investment decision in July 2022 to develop the Jackdaw gas field following regulatory approvals granted earlier in the year as European countries tried to underpin their domestic supplies hit by the Russian war in Ukraine that led to sanctions.

Development plan

The Jackdaw field is located about 250 kilometres (155 miles) east of Aberdeen, Scotland, and is adjacent to the UK-Norway median line.

The field is 100 percent owned and operated by an affiliate of Shell UK which became part of the Shell group of companies in 2016 after BG Group was taken over.

The Jackdaw development consists of a new Wellhead Platform (WHP), four production wells and the 30km pipeline from the Jackdaw WHP to the Shearwater gas hub.
Peak production from the field is estimated at 40,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

Shell said that the UK North Sea remained one of Shell’s core Upstream positions, attracting capital to high margin hydrocarbon projects that can be resilient to commodity price cycles.

The gas from the Jackdaw field will come ashore at the St Fergus gas terminal in Scotland.

The project is expected to come on stream by 2025 and at peak production rates could represent over 6 percent of projected UK North Sea gas production in the middle of this decade.

Shell has said that the Jackdaw gas field was part the company’s broader intent to invest up to £25 billion ($30Bln) in the UK energy system in the next decade.

The company added at the time that the St Fergus terminal that will handle the Jackdaw gas will also be part of the development of the Acorn Carbon Capture and Storage project, which will aim to sequester carbon dioxide from industrial clusters in Scotland, the UK and northern Europe.

TechnipFMC, the US energy engineering company with subsea expertise, said it was awarded a significant integrated engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract by a Norwegian subsidiary of German oil and gas company Wintershall Dea to revitalize the Maria field in the Norwegian Sea.

TechnipFMC is continuing its development of challenging hydrocarbon fields as a subsea operator around the world after the spin-off of the TechnipFMC LNG engineering division, now operating as a separate company, TechnipEnergies.