Marathon Oil has awarded Technip an engineering, procurement, installation, and commissioning contract, worth some $381.5million, for the Boyla subsea field development in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
The development is located on block 24/9, PL340, about 225km west of Stavanger, at a water depth of 120m. Marathon said that the contract includes all activities necessary to complete the construction of the subsea system for Boyla (formerly the Marihone) development and connect it to the existing Alvheim subsea facilities 28km distant linked to the Alvheim floating production, storage, and offloading vessel (FPSO). Technip will carry out the contract from its operating centre in Oslo.