HOUSTON -- KBR (NYSE:KBR) immediately introduced that it has been awarded a contract by Chevron U.S.A. Inc. to execute specific design and style engineering for the Jack & St. Malo floating production unit (FPU) located in the Reduced Tertiary pattern in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The Jack and St. Malo fields are situated within 25 miles (forty km) of a single a different approximately 280 miles (450 km) south of New Orleans, Louisiana, in water depths of seven,000 feet (two,a hundred m).
KBR will grant design and style and engineering assist by fabrication for the deep draft semi-submersible (semi) as well as: hull, deck box, accommodations, appurtenances, devices foundations mooring model pattern and anchor suction piles. The semi will be crafted to decrease vessel movement and make it easy for acceptable fatigue lives of the moorings, risers and umbilicals.
“Following the announcement of the precise style contract for Giant Foot in January 2011, KBR is overwhelmingly proud to take the award for Jack & St. Malo FPU,” said Dennis Calton, President, KBR Oil & Gas. “As a business, we’ve labored strategically to re-enter the Gulf of Mexico. The option to execute one additional project for Chevron in the Gulf positions KBR at the forefront of deep drinking water discipline development.”
KBR subsidiaries Granherne and GVA consultants will collaborate on the execution of this stage of the project. The award of this agreement follows the productive completion of conceptual engineering and design and style, pre-FEED and FEED by KBR for the Jack & St. Malo FPU venture.
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