JDR nets deal for Total’s Egina field

UK services player JDR Control Systems has scooped a contract to provide umbilicals and reels for Total’s giant Egina field development off Nigeria.

The Cambridgeshire-based outfit will design and manufacture 20 kilometres of umbilicals and nine reelers for the intervention workover control system at Egina.

Delivery is set for the middle of the year with design and manufacture in the UK.

Earlier this week, Nigeria’s Aveon Offshore won a subsea structures fabrication contract from FMC for Egina. Aveon will supply more than 5000 tonnes of subsea structures which will be fabricated at its yard in Rumuolumeni, near Port Harcourt.

Egina lies about 150 kilometres off the coast of Nigeria within OML 130 in a water depth of up to 1750 metres. First oil is expected in 2017.

South Korean shipyard Samsung Heavy Industries is supplying the $3 billion floating production, storage and offloading unit for the project. It is designed to handle 200,000 barrels per day of oil and 160 million cubic feet per day of gas.

Total operates the field with a 24% interest and is partnered by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (45%), Petrobras (16%), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (10%) and Sapetro (5%).