Van Oord wins two contracts in Egypt - MARITIME JOURNAL

Van Oord will deploy a trailing suction hopper dredger
and a backhoe dredger to Egypt

22 Dec 2016
Larz Bourne

Dutch dredging and marine construction company Van Oord has been awarded two contracts by international contractor Subsea 7.

The assignments include the construction of a landfall and the execution of subsea rock installation works in Egypt. The projects are part of the West Nile Delta project, which comprises the development of a series of gas fields, located 65km off the northern coast of Egypt. The final client is oil and gas company BP. Preparations on site have already started.

The landfall scope of work consists of the installation of a cofferdam, trenching and pipe pull activities and will be executed in 2017. The landfall location is at the Burrulus terminal near Idku, 50km from Alexandria. Van Oord will deploy a trailing suction hopper dredger, a backhoe dredger and 600t winch. The flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes will be deployed to execute rock installation activities to prevent upheaval buckling.

Van Oord wins two contracts for West Nile Delta offshore Egypt - OFFSHORE MAGAZINE

Van Oord's flexible fallpipe vessel 'Stornes' 

11/03/2016

Offshore staff

ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands – Subsea 7 has contracted Van Oord to construct the landfall and execute subsea rock installation works for the West Nile Delta project in the Egyptian sector of the Mediterranean Sea. Preparations on-site have already started.

The BP-operated project, located 65 km (40 mi) offshore northern Egypt, comprises the development of a series of gas fields. The first phase, which includes the Taurus and Libra fields, consists of a nine-well tieback to the existing Burullus facilities.

Egypt- BP produces 650m cubic feet from Taurus and Libra fields - MENAFN / DAILY NEWS EGYPT

17/10/2016 

(MENAFN - Daily News Egypt) BP signed an agreement with Royal Dutch Shell to process 650m cubic feet of gas, produced from its North Alexandria project, at Shell's Borollos station for 0.3 per million feet.

A senior source in the petroleum sector told Daily News Egypt that the process of linking the North Alexandria project to the station in Borollos will begin in the coming period.

He noted that Borollos gas treatment plant has an estimated capacity of about 1.1bn cubic feet per day. The station currently processes 650m cubic feet per day.

The North Alexandria project involves the development of five fields, starting with Taurus and Libra fields by linking them to the onshore processing facilities in Borollos in the third quarter of 2017. The company has completed 52% of operations in Taurus and Libra fields.

BP acquires Shell’s Rosetta gas plant for $128 m - ARAB FINANCE / DAILY NEWS EGYPT

Tuesday 09/27/2016 12:29:00 PM

Cairo: BP acquired Shell’s Rosetta gas treatment plant in Rashid for $128m and received it in April. The plant will be prepared to be linked to the production of Giza and Fayoum gas fields in northern Alexandria.

A senior source in the petroleum sector told Daily News Egypt that the maximum capacity of the Rosetta plant amounts to 425m cubic feet of gas per day, adding that 420m cubic feet produced from Giza and Fayoum fields will be linked to the station in 2019.

He added that Royal Dutch Shell has transferred production of the Rosetta field in the Rashid concession area to the Borollos plant, after selling the Rosetta plant to BP.