GE said that contracts with the project operator, Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd could total more than $US170 million over the life of the development.
Facilities for the Golden Eagle development will comprise a combined production, utilities and accommodation platform linked to a separate wellhead platform, with 16 platform-based wells, a phased subsea well development, and associated in-field and export pipeline infrastructure.
Under one contract, GE will supply wellheads, xmas trees and additional equipment for subsea and platform applications. Under a separate contract, GE will provide subsea control systems, including GE’s latest award winning SemStar5 subsea electronics modules. The project schedule calls for equipment to be shipped this year and installed during 2013, with commercial production to begin in late 2014.
GE has also received contracts totalling more than $US1 billion to supply a wide range of equipment and services for the Ichthys LNG project in Australia, including the provision of subsea production systems for the offshore portion of the project as well as subsea connectors for an 889 km pipeline that will carry gas produced from a central processing facility to the new LNG plant in Darwin.
The scope of GE’s supply includes 22 subsea production trees, five off-subsea manifolds, an integrated subsea control system and a 42 inch diameter trunkline connection system, as well as four Frame 7EA gas turbines and eight MR/PR compressors for the LNG plant, and ten PGT25+G4 gas turbines and ten compressors for the project’s upstream facilities.
The equipment will be shipped by 2014, with project production expected by the end of 2016.
The Ichthys LNG Project is a joint venture between Inpex (76 per cent, the operator) and Total (24 per cent).
