US oilfield services firm Weatherfor has been awarded a works package at the Garraf field, according to a recently retired government source quoted by Dow Jones Newswires on Friday.
The Garraf field, which has reserves of around 1 billion barrels, is expected to produce 50,000 barrels a day next year, 60,000 barrels a day in 2013 and 100,000 barrels a day in 2014, Adnan Galay, who retired as chairman of the field’s joint management committee a few weeks ago, told Dow Jones.
The contract will cover early production work involves construction of a degasing facility with two trains of 50,000 barrels a day each, as well as storage tanks and infrastructure.
Weatherford – which beat Petrofac with JGC, and Saipem with Punj Lloyd – to the deal – was reportedly awarded the contract by the Malaysian company Petronas (45% stake) and its partners, Japan Petroleum Exploration (Japex) (30% stake), and Iraq’s state South Oil Company (25% stake). The consortium was awarded the technical service contract for developing the field in 2010.
Lakeshore TolTest has reportedly been retained by Weatherford as a subcontractor under the contract.
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