KBR Awarded FEED Contract by Chevron for Big Foot Topsides Project
November 02 2009 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
KBR (NYSE: KBR) today announced that it has been awarded a
contract by Chevron USA Inc. for the front-end engineering and
design (FEED) of the topsides for the proposed Big Foot development
facility. The Big Foot field is located in the Walker Ridge Block
29 of the Gulf of Mexico and is owned by Chevron USA Inc.
(operator), Statoil Gulf of Mexico LLC and Marubeni Oil & Gas
(USA) Inc. The proposed facility will be installed in 5,300 feet of
water approximately 200 miles from New Orleans and 35 miles south
of Chevron’s producing Tahiti field.
The goal is to develop Big Foot with a dry-tree floating
drilling and production facility. The hull would be an extended
tension leg platform (ETLP), and the topside oil and gas processing
facilities would include inlet separation, gas compression,
dehydration and export, oil treatment and export pumping, produced
water treatment, and required utility systems. Water injection
facilities would be provided with the initial facility installation
to enable reservoir pressure maintenance early in the life of the
field. KBR will provide engineering and project management services
to develop the process design; specify the required equipment;
layout, modularize and integrate the decks; perform the necessary
structural analyses; and provide the electrical power generation
and distribution system designed to support the platform and the
downhole electrical submersible pump requirements. KBR will also
assist Chevron in estimating the cost of the facility and plan the
subsequent phases of the development.
“We are proud to have been selected as the contractor of choice
by Chevron for the Big Foot topsides project,” said Roy Oelking,
Executive Vice President, KBR Oil and Gas. “We are pleased with the
opportunity to reenter the offshore engineering market in the Gulf
of Mexico alongside an industry leader such as Chevron. I am
confident that KBR will tap into its vast engineering portfolio and
execute a quality FEED for our client.”
KBR is a global engineering, construction and services company
supporting the energy, hydrocarbon, government services, minerals,
civil infrastructure, power and industrial markets. For more
information, visit www.kbr.com.
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