Technical services firm wins three-year contract
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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Apr 19, 2006
Pressurised leak sealing services and composites repair technologies to be supplied for pipework, pipelines, vessels, flanges and valves as part of three-year contract to wet gas project in Algeria.
Technical services company Furmanite has won a three-year contract to provide leak sealing services to In Amenas Operations (IAO), the largest wet gas project in Algeria, operated by the BP, Sonatrach and Statoil joint venture.
Furmanite will provide its pressurised leak sealing services and composites repair technologies for pipework, pipelines, vessels, flanges and valves in fulfilment of the contract, which became effective in March 2006.
The company is contracted to deliver design, management and implementation of specialist engineered temporary and permanent repairs as part of the IAO integrity and maintenance management programme to maintain the safe, reliable and economic performance of the project.
Furmanite will provide planned repairs and round-the-clock emergency call-out.
The contract applies across the central production facilities at IAO, including flowlines from wellhead surface safety valves to manifolds, trunklines, and export pipelines from the central production facilities to Ohanet.
IAO integrity supervisor Lou Fear said: "Having focused on achieving an inherently safe, modern and efficient design with minimum emissions and discharges, we're now concentrating on the operation's organisation and systems including a comprehensive integrity and maintenance management programme, which Furmanite's specialist expertise and service will support".
Furmanite international sales manager Paul Smith said: "Our services will help IAO maximise production efficiency and keep assets operating safely and reliably with minimum downtime".
"These services can be applied on-line while production continues, representing potentially massive savings by avoiding unscheduled shutdown, whether that requires design and installation of a temporary or permanent leak sealing clamp or a composite repair".
"Our remit is to help operators maximise asset uptime".
The IAO development is an association between BP Amoco Exploration and its association partners L'Entreprise Nationale Sonatrach and Statoil North Africa Oil.
Involving the development and production of natural gas and gas liquids from four wet gas fields in the Illizi basin of south east Algeria, it is expected to produce some nine billion cubic metres of gas per year and 50,000 barrels of liquids, and becomes operational this year.
The project is strategic to the area, where production levels will be sustained over the next 20 years.
The IAO and In Salah Gas projects together will produce 75% of the forecast increase in Algeria's gas export capacity by 2010.
This contract follows a similar agreement to support the In Salah Gas contract, secured last year.
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