Offshore staff
BAKU, Azerbaijan — BP Exploration (Shah Deniz) has awarded the SOCAR-KBR (SKLLC) joint venture an optimization stage engineering services contract for the Shah Deniz compression project in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea.
The project is in the early pre-FID stage.
The Shah Deniz compression platform project will be the first in the Caspian region to involve unmanned operations.
SOCAR-KBR will provide Class 3 engineering services to support integration of the new platform to the existing system and provide shore power to cut Shah Deniz’s carbon footprint.
KBR recently completed the initial assessment for the project using its KMIT tool to provide estimates of timing and resourcing of maintenance.
In July the Shah Deniz partnership announced the start of the define stage for a new project that will allow the Shah Deniz Alpha (SDA) platform to receive its power supply from the Shah Deniz Bravo (SDB) platform through a subsea cable.
The goals are to reduce SDA’s operational emissions and increase the platform’s operational efficiency, providing a secure long-term, high-availability power supply.
At present, SDA’s electric power is supplied by five main power generators designed to be run by dual gas and diesel, fuel engines. The existing generators will be decommissioned once the new project starts up in 2024.
Under a $5.7 million contract, the SOCAR-KBR joint venture has been providing FEED services for decommissioning the existing main power generators on the SDA platform and the implementation of the new power supply system.
11.17.2022
