Subsea 7 said yesterday it had been awarded a large contract by BP for the Andrew area development project in the UK North Sea and it could help to create up to 100 jobs.
The engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning contract is valued at more than £92million and could with a similar £48.7million contract for an as yet unnamed client announced in April lead to the creation of up to 100 engineering jobs in Subsea 7’s UK region, the company said.
A spokeswoman said these jobs would predominantly be at Subsea 7’s offices at Westhill, near Aberdeen.
They would take the company’s payroll at Westhill to about 1,000.
For the BP contract, Subsea 7’s workscope is to engineer, procure, fabricate, instal and commission a 17.4-mile pipeline bundle system consisting of production, gas-lift and methanol pipelines.
Engineering design will be carried out at Westhill with fabrication at the company’s Wester yard, near Wick.
Also included is the installation of a 17.4-mile electro-hydraulic control umbilical, tie-ins of integrated subsea towhead structures, field testing and pre-commissioning works.
The pipeline bundle system will tie back BP’s Arundel and Kinnoull developments to the Andrew platform.
Steph McNeill, Subsea 7’s vice-president for the UK, said: “We are extremely pleased to be awarded this major pipeline bundle project by BP. We look forward to helping bring on stream the Andrew area development in an efficient, timely and safe manner.”
The project means a step change in the Subsea 7 pipeline bundle tieback range in that it will be the longest that the subsurface engineering and construction company has produced and installed to date.
Subsea 7 has produced 60 bundles in 30 years, including on several BP projects, the most recent example being for the Valhall field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea last year.
Engineering has already begun. The offshore phase will begin early next year.
The Andrew area development is 143 miles north-east of Aberdeen in blocks 16/27a & 16/28 in the central North Sea.
Subsea 7 has a workforce of 5,000-plus people worldwide, with global offshore operations in the North Sea, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Brazil, and North America.
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