Nexen Petroleum has given a major fabrication contract for its £2billion Golden Eagle development to Heerama Fabrication Group.
Heerema is to build two jackets for the North Sea project – a 6,000 tons wellhead jacket and a 6,000 tons jacket for the production utilities quarters.
However, both are to be built at the firm’s Vlissingen yard in the Netherlands. Last month the project’s platform contracts were issued to Lamprell’s United Arab Emirates yard.
Start-up on the Golden Eagle development, about 43 miles from Aberdeen, is expected in late 2014.
It is expected to produce an estimated 140million barrels of oil equivalent of proved and probable reserves over 18 years.
Construction of the jackets is due to start in February 2012. Both will have a height of 426ft with a footprint of 146ft by 147ft.
It is expected they would be ready for transportation to the Golden Eagle field in the second quarter of 2013.