Oz Santos Awards Barossa Pipeline Contract

Australian Santos September 26 it has awarded the contract for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the 260-km Barossa project gas export pipeline to Allseas Group.

The Barossa project is in the front-end engineering design phase and includes a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility, subsea production system and gas export pipeline. The gas export pipeline will tie the Barossa gas field, 300-km north of Darwin, into the existing Bayu Undan to Darwin Pipeline.

"This is another big step towards Barossa FID and follows the award of the subsea production system and installation support contract in May,” Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher said. "Evaluation of tenders for the FPSO and development drilling contracts is well progressed."

The Barossa field sits within Santos' northern Australia portfolio, which the company says is one of its core long-life, natural gas asset regions. The project area encompasses petroleum permit NT/RL5 located in waters offshore Northern Territory.  

Santos holds a 25% interest in the Barossa joint venture along with partners ConocoPhillips (37.5% and operator) and SK E&S (37.5%). Santos is also a joint venture partner in Darwin LNG with an 11.5% interest.