The development concept consists of a subsea tie-back to the Ngujima-Yin floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), which operates at the Vincent oilfield.

Woodside awards Aibel FEED contract

Australia

PERTH, September 16, 2015 – Australian operator Woodside Petroleum has awarded Norwegian oilfield services company Aibel Singapore a front-end engineering and design contract for the Greater Enfield development, located off the coast of western Australia.

The development concept consists of a subsea tie-back to the Ngujima-Yin floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), which operates at the Vincent oilfield.

The contract consists of the management, engineering and provision of procurement services, which include brownfield modifications to the FPSO before it can accommodate new fluids. Additional drilling of up to four wells is expected. The construction of subsea equipment is also scheduled, including the installation of flowlines, umbilicals, christmas trees, manifolds and multi-phase pumps.

The Greater Enfield development encompasses production from the previously undeveloped Norton over Laverda, Laverda Canyon and Cimatti oil discoveries. Woodside Petroleum owns a 60-percent stake in the development in blocks WA-36-R and WA-28-L, with Mitsui Singapore holding the remaining 40-percent share.

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