KBR Awarded Contract to Provide Engineering, Procurement and Design Interface Services for Pazflor FPSO Topsides
February 04 2008 - 4:15PM
Business Wire
KBR (NYSE:KBR) today announced that it has been awarded a contract
by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Company, Ltd. (DSME)
to provide topsides engineering, procurement and interface design
services for a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO)
vessel on the Pazflor project, operated by Total in Angola. The
award marks the eleventh major FPSO design that KBR has been
involved with in the past decade. Pazflor�s design is a
purpose-built FPSO with a topsides weight of 32,200 metric tons.
Total�s Angolan subsidiary, Total E&P Angola (TEPA), awarded
DSME the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract
to construct the vessel�s moorings, hull and topsides. It is
designed with a processing capacity of 200,000 barrels per day of
oil, 150 million cubic feet per day of gas, and a storage capacity
of about 1.9 million barrels of crude. Facilities are planned for a
20-year design life, and quarters are provided for 220 operation
and maintenance personnel. First oil production on Pazflor is
scheduled in 2011. �The Pazflor FPSO is the fourth consecutive
mega-topsides and second new-build FPSO awarded to KBR by DSME in
the last five years,� said John Rose, president, upstream for KBR.
�This project builds on KBR�s long history of work in Angola and
reinforces the importance of this market for our company.� �KBR has
a track record for delivering innovative, quality engineering
within schedule, which is why we continue to choose them for our
projects,� said W.S. Ryu, executive vice president and chief
division officer, offshore business division for DSME. Pazflor
includes the Perpetua, Acacia, Zinia and Hortensia fields, which
lie in the eastern portion of Block 17 approximately 150 kilometers
from the Angolan coast. The FPSO will be spread-moored in a depth
of approximately 2500 feet atop 25 subsea oil wells, 2 gas
injection wells and 22 water injection wells. DSME will construct
the vessel at its fabrication yard in South Korea. KBR is a global
engineering, construction and services company supporting the
energy, petrochemicals, government services and civil
infrastructure sectors. The company offers a wide range of services
through its Downstream, Government and Infrastructure, Services,
Technology, Upstream and Ventures business segments. For more
information, visit www.kbr.com.
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