Incoming gas supplies signal lucrative AMEC contract
3 Jun 2005
AMEC has landed a £53million contract to design and build a gas storage facility at Aldbrough near Hornsea, East Yorkshire, for Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE).
The new facility is in response to the increasing trend for gas imports as North Sea reserves begin to run down.
The plant is to be operated remotely from an existing facility ten miles away, and part of AMEC’s task is to design and install the necessary instrumentation and infrastructure to enable this.
The company will also handle the design, engineering, procurement and installation of the Central Processing Area (CPA) process plant, including three 20MW compressors and associated controls.
AMEC’s Darlington operations centre is carrying out the engineering design on the project, with on-site operations scheduled to begin in May. The first gas is expected ashore in December 2006, and AMEC expects to complete the CPA the following July.
On a releated note, Talisman Energy has awarded AMEC a contract worth more than £40million to substantially alter the Piper B platform in the North Sea, 160km northeast of Aberdeen, to receive oil and gas from Talisman’s new Tweedsmuir field. The contract follows on from AMEC’s successful completion of initial engineering and front-end engineering design on the project. The project involves a four-well subsea tieback from the field, 55km south of Piper B.
