Technip has picked up a multimillion pound contract with GDF Suez E&P to carry out work on the southern North Sea Juliet field.
The contract, understood to be worth nearly £50million, will involve the engineering, procurement, installation and construction of a set of pipelines and manifolds to be used to tie back GDF’s Juliet field to the Pickerill A platform, operated by Perenco, 13 miles away.
The work, expected to be completed by the end of this year, will be carried out at Technip’s bases in Aberdeen and Oslo, Norway.
Technip’s vessels the Apache II and Normand Pioneer will be used during the work.
Knut Boe, senior vice president, Technip’s North Sea-Canada region, said: “This project is a great example of the ongoing level of investment in the UK Continental Shelf and the subsea opportunities that are arising as result.”
Technip UK employs 1,100 people in Aberdeen and about 10 at its Evanton Spoolbase. Renewables subsidiary Technip Offshore Wind currently employs about 110 people in Aberdeen.
Juliet, located 24 miles east of the Lincolnshire coastline, received sanction in June 2012 and will be operated by GDF Suez (51.56%) in partnership with First Oil Expro (29.44%) and Hansa Hydrocarbons (19%).
First gas is scheduled for late 2013 and gross 2P reserves amount to 2billion cubic meters.
The Juliet development will comprise two horizontal subsea wells.
Existing infrastructure will transport the Juliet gas to the Theddlethorpe terminal on the Lincolnshire coast.