KBR (NYSE: KBR) today announced that it has been awarded a contract by
Chevron USA Inc. for the front-end engineering and design (FEED) of the
topsides for the proposed Big Foot development facility. The Big Foot
field is located in the Walker Ridge Block 29 of the Gulf of Mexico and
is owned by Chevron USA Inc. (operator), Statoil Gulf of Mexico LLC and
Marubeni Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. The proposed facility will be installed in
5,300 feet of water approximately 200 miles from New Orleans and 35
miles south of Chevron’s producing Tahiti field.
The goal is to develop Big Foot with a dry-tree floating drilling and
production facility. The hull would be an extended tension leg platform
(ETLP), and the topside oil and gas processing facilities would include
inlet separation, gas compression, dehydration and export, oil treatment
and export pumping, produced water treatment, and required utility
systems. Water injection facilities would be provided with the initial
facility installation to enable reservoir pressure maintenance early in
the life of the field. KBR will provide engineering and project
management services to develop the process design; specify the required
equipment; layout, modularize and integrate the decks; perform the
necessary structural analyses; and provide the electrical power
generation and distribution system designed to support the platform and
the downhole electrical submersible pump requirements. KBR will also
assist Chevron in estimating the cost of the facility and plan the
subsequent phases of the development.
“We are proud to have been selected as the contractor of choice by
Chevron for the Big Foot topsides project,” said Roy Oelking, Executive
Vice President, KBR Oil and Gas. “We are pleased with the opportunity to
reenter the offshore engineering market in the Gulf of Mexico alongside
an industry leader such as Chevron. I am confident that KBR will tap
into its vast engineering portfolio and execute a quality FEED for our
client.”
KBR is a global engineering, construction and services company
supporting the energy, hydrocarbon, government services, minerals, civil
infrastructure, power and industrial markets. For more information,
visit www.kbr.com.
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