DOF Subsea bags contract with Beach Energy

DOF Subsea has been awarded Beach Energy's Otway Offshore Phase 5 - transport and installation project, it said on December 17.

The campaign execution will cover the installation of the subsea infrastructure for four new Thylacine wells.  This will include installation of subsea umbilicals, flexible flowlines and connectors, structures and rigid spools, DOF said.

The contract scope includes project management, engineering, fabrication, transportation and installation services and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2023.  The project will be executed using DOF Subsea's construction support vessel Skandi Acergy.

The Otway basin is an onshore and offshore basin that extends approximately 500 km from Cape Jaffa in South Australia to northwest Tasmania.

In Victoria, Beach’s operations in the Otway basin involve natural gas production from the Halladale and Speculant natural gas fields, as well as the Geographe and Thylacine gas fields, with natural gas being piped and processed at the Otway gas plant near Port Campbell.

Once processed, the natural gas is sold to retailers who use it for domestic or commercial consumption in the east coast gas market.