Technip-NPCC land EPC contract for Satah oil field

The two companies will divide procurement and installation roles between themselves.

RELATED ARTICLES: Irish firm wins $8.2m ME oil and gas contract | Tapping the oil | Joint UAE-Azerbaijan oil terminal to open in 2011

A consortium of Technip and Abu Dhabi’s National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) has secured an engineering, procurement and construction contract to work on the offshore Satah Full Field Development project worth $500m (AED 1.83bn).

The field, located 200km northwest of Abu Dhabi, is owned by Zakum Development Company, which awarded the lump-sum contract late last week.

The scope of work covers so-called brownfield work on the well heads that will relieve pressure and introduce gas injection and gas lift facilities, boosting output to an estimated 25,000 barrels per day.

Story continues below

Advertisement

FEATURED COMMENT Please click here to comment on this article

‘Brownfield’ sites refer to property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.

Technip, a French contractor for on- and offshore energy projects, will conduct the engineering and procurement, while NPCC will provide the construction and installation. The two companies will jointly work on the onshore tasks.

NPCC is owned by the investment vehicle General Holding Company and Consolidated Contractors Group. Its services in the oil and gas industry have expanded from steel structures and pipe coatings to full scale fabrication and engineering construction projects.

It has an extensive marine fleet, which includes 13 construction barges with a capacity of 12,000 tons, lifting single structures, laying submarine pipelines, hook-up and maintenance works.

More than half of the company’s contracting derives from Abu Dhabi, according to chairman Hussain Jessem Al Nuwais, speaking to local press earlier this year, though the company is currently working with consultants to expand into the Caspian Sea and West Africa.

Meanwhile, Euroconsult Mott MacDonald, the international development consultancy arm of the UK firm, has been appointed by the World Bank to provide consultancy services for a project which will assess the impacts of climate change on the coastal communities of the Southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in Djibouti, Sudan and Yemen.

The results will enable governments, key stakeholders and communities to better understand and prepare for the impacts of climate change, and will provide the basis for improved investments in the coastal regions.