JP Kenny, Supraco win Tangguh pipeline FEED

Wood Group subsidiary JP Kenny and local partner PT Supraco have been confirmed as winners of the coveted front-end engineering and design contract for the subsea pipelines on BP's Tangguh LNG project in Papua, Upstream Online reported Wednesday.

The project is located in the Bird?s Head area of the province, also known as Papua, where BP plans to build offshore gas production facilities linked by pipelines to a greenfield onshore LNG plant.

The three pipelines will total approximately 70 kilometers in length transporting to shore untreated gas from the offshore Wiriagar/Vorwata fields in approximately 95 meters of water, JP Kenny said.

The FEED work will be carried out in both Australia and Indonesia. The financial details of the contract, first reported in Upstream Hardcopy, were not disclosed.

The contractor said the job presented some significant design and installation challenges, including high inlet temperatures with a CO2 component in the gas stream; a lack of local supply and construction infrastructure; and extreme currents, poor visibility and high tidal range.

JP Kenny group managing director, Asia-Pacific, Steve Wayman said: "We were especially pleased to win this project in view of its high technical content and strong focus on health and safety.

"We see Indonesia as being one of our most important international countries and we intend to build up our engineering and production facilities support capability there." (*)