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Saipem wins Australia, Guyana

offshore contracts

PROJECTS & ITALY’S Saipem has been awarded two new off- intensity sources of LNG globally.
COMPANIES shore contracts – one for the Scarborough pro- Saipem’s work at Scarborough will be mainly
ject in Australia and the other for the Yellowtail conducted by the Castorone pipelaying vessel,
development in Guyana. Combined, the two which Caio described as a “versatile and state-
contracts are worth $1.1bn. of-the-art asset”.
“The award of these contracts represents a The Yellowtail contract, meanwhile, has been
significant confirmation of the trust of our clients awarded to Saipem by Esso Exploration and
in Saipem’s ability to execute complex offshore Production Guyana Ltd (EEPGL), a subsidiary
At Scarborough, projects worldwide,” said Saipem’s CEO and gen- of ExxonMobil. The project is located in the pro-
Saipem’s work includes eral manager, Francesco Caio, in the company’s lific Stabroek block offshore Guyana, which is
export trunkline coating January 11 statement. home to more than 20 “significant” discoveries,
and installation of At Scarborough, Saipem has received notice at a water depth of around 1,800 metres.
the pipeline that will to proceed (NTP) from operator Woodside for The contract relates to the engineering, pro-
connect the offshore export trunkline coating and installation of the curement, construction and installation (EPCI)
field with the onshore pipeline that will connect the offshore gas field of the subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines
Pluto LNG plant. with the onshore Pluto LNG plant. (SURF) for Yellowtail.
The Scarborough field is located in the Car- The greenfield Yellowtail development will
narvon Basin, offshore Western Australia. New include subsea drilling centres that will be linked
offshore facilities will be built for the project, and to a new floating production storage and off-
connected by a roughly 430-km export trunkline loading unit (FPSO). Each of the subsea drilling
to a second LNG train that will be constructed centres will be equipped with separate oil pro-
at the existing Pluto LNG plant. The first cargo duction, water injection and gas injection wells.
from the project is expected to be delivered in Saipem’s FDS2 vessel will conduct the off-
2026. shore operations, while its recently opened fabri-
Saipem stated that the Scarborough devel- cation facility in Guyana will build the deepwater
opment would be among the lowest carbon structural elements.™

NEWS IN BRIEF

SOUTH ASIA after the departure of US-led forces from EAST ASIA
Afghanistan, the Taliban for around two years
Taliban to deploy 30,000 had been giving assurances to Turkmenistan MOL and CNOOC sign long-
that the infrastructure project would not be a
soldiers to protect TAPI gas target for attacks. term charter deal for six
The gas pipeline enters Afghanistan
pipeline project rollout through the western province of Herat, on newbuilding LNG carriers
the border with Turkmenistan, and crosses
The Taliban announced on January 10 that the country to connect with neighbouring Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL; president and
they will deploy a dedicated unit of 30,000 Pakistan through southern Kandahar CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) today announced
soldiers to enable the resumption of work province. that on January 7, through a subsidiary, it
on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan- When TAPI was conceived in 2015 at the signed a long-term charter contract for six
India (TAPI) TAPI gas pipeline project. initiative of Turkmenistan, the plan was to newbuilding LNG carriers with CNOOC Gas
Work on TAPI was suspended amid bring gas from the Turkmen Galkynysh fields & Power Singapore Trading & Marketing, a
insecurity in Afghanistan after the Islamist to India by 2019. whollyo wned subsidiary of China National
fundamentalists seized power in August last Initial budgeting calculated the project Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC). The vessels will
year. would cost around $7.5bn. The pipeline be built at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding
“The plan is to deploy a 30,000-member capacity would be 33bn cubic metres of gas (Group) in China, and are slated for delivery
security unit for the security of the TAPI per year. from 2024 through 2026.
project. They will be providing security There remain substantial doubts as to The six vessels’ main assignment will be
along the route of the project in all parts of whether Turkmenistan can secure enough to transport LNG imports to China under
the provinces where the pipeline is being financing to complete the project. a long-term purchasing contract with
constructed,” Taliban spokesperson Bilal CNOOC Group, one of China’s major energy
Karimi told EFE. companies. MOL’s solid track record in
Even before they took power last year building LNG carriers in China in addition to

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