SPIE Lands Montara Double
Monday 20 March 2017
Service provider SPIE Oil & Gas Services has been awarded two contracts by Thai company PTTEP at its Montara oil project off north-west Australia.
SPIE revealed Monday it had been awarded contracts to provide control systems and electrical equipment in hazardous areas (EEHA) maintenance services.
The company will provide instrument and controls engineers and EEHA inspectors for planned and unplanned maintenance, as well as to optimise the instrument, controls, hazardous area and safeguarding systems to deliver efficiencies and improvements to support production.
Work on the contracts started last month and will run for up to three years.
The Montara project lies about 250 kilometres north-west of Western Australia's Kimberley coast and includes the Montara, Skua, Swift and Swallow fields.
It consists of an unmanned wellhead platform which is connected to the Montara Venture floating production, storage and offloading vessel, three horizontal production wells, one gas injection well, five subsea wells.
Montara was discovered in 1988 by BHP Billiton and Cooogee Resources took over as operator of the field in 2003.
Output was meant to commence in 2008 but was pushed back following PTTEP's acquisition of Coogee in 2008 and start-up was further delayed by an August 2009 oil and gas spill as well as a fire on the West Atlas rig and the wellhead platform in November of the same year during attempts to plug the leak.
The field eventually started production in 2013 and it has an anticipated 12-year life span.