Oz Crux Feed Contract Goes to Wood, KBR

Anglo-Dutch major Shell has awarded engineering firms Wood Group and KBR a "multi-million dollar contract" to deliver integrated front-end engineering design (Feed) for its Crux project, the two said February 6.

The work will be for a platform and gas export pipeline some 600 km north of Broome, offshore Western Australia. The Crux facilities will be a source of backfill gas supply to the Shell-operated Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility which is yet to start up commercially. The remotely operated, minimum facilities platform concept for Crux will dry the gas and export the gas/condensate to Prelude through a new 160-km multiphase gas pipeline. 

The services will be delivered over 18 months by Wood and KBR’s engineering and project management teams in Perth, Western Australia, supported by Wood’s Kuala Lumpur resource base. The teams will provide a single integrated Feed for the Crux topsides, jacket, export pipeline and subsea pipeline end manifold.

Wood said the company was "committed to expanding our portfolio in the region, developing local content by investing in industry talent, resources and supply chain. Working alongside each other for more than 20 years, Wood and KBR provide a powerful combination, leveraging the experience of two tier one contractors.”

Wood also provides specialist consultancy services for flexible riser integrity management to the Shell-operated Prelude FLNG facility. 

KBR said the win built on its long offshore experience in Australia and reinforced its extensive global leadership position in unmanned offshore facilities.