Foster Wheeler wins FEED for BP gas fields development in Algeria

Foster Wheeler awarded FEED by BP Exploration for gas fields development in Algeria

Hamilton, Bermuda - Foster Wheeler's UK-headquartered subsidiary Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by BP Exploration (El Djazair) Ltd on behalf of the In Salah Gas Joint Venture for the Southern Fields Development Project in Algeria. The contact value was not disclosed.

 In Salah Gas (ISG), the largest dry gas joint-venture development in the country, involves the development of seven proven gas fields in the southern Sahara, 1,200 km south of Algiers. On-stream since July 2004, ISG produces approximately nine billion cubic meters of gas per year from three northern fields. It is also the world’s first full-scale carbon dioxide capture project at an onshore gas field. The ISG venture is run as an Association between Sonatrach, BP and StatoilHydro.

The objective of the In Salah Southern Gas Fields Development Project, the second phase of the ISG development, is to maintain gas production at plateau levels when production from the three northern fields goes into decline. It involves the development of the four fields to the south of the current development, Garet el Befinat, Hassi Moumene, In Salah and Gour Mahmoud, located around the town of In Salah in the Walia of Tamanrasset.

Foster Wheeler will update the basis of design, develop the technical data, specifications and requisitions and provide a detailed cost estimate in order to define the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) scope of work.