Subsea 7 Wins Shell North Sea Work

UK engineering firm Subsea 7 has scooped up a contract for a Shell gas project in the UK North Sea, it said on October 4.

Under the Pierce depressurisation project, Subsea 7 will undertake engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and transportation and installation (T&I) work on a 30-km gas export pipeline, a gas export riser and associated subsea infrastructure, for tie-ins at the Haewene Brim floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit. Project management and detailed engineering has already begun at Subsea 7’s Aberdeen office and offshore activities are due to take place in 2020 and 2021.

Subsea 7’s vice president for the UK and Canada, Jonathan Tame, said the contract was secured because of the company’s “extensive knowledge of Shell’s North Sea developments.”

Subsea 7 said the contract was sizeable, placing its value somewhere between $50-150mn.

Shell and its partner Ithaca Energy announced final investment decision (FID) on the Pierce project on October 3. The scheme will enable commercial gas flows from the field, which currently produces only oil with all gas being re-injected to maintain reservoir pressure.