Under the $200m contract, ShawCor will implement carry out work at the Caspian Pipe Coatings (CPC) facility in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The contract includes the application of anti-corrosion and concrete weight coatings, as well as improvements to the CPC plant in Baku.

The facility, upon completion, will meet the project’s needs for anti-corrosion and concrete weight coating.

Coating is scheduled to start in 2015 and will be completed by October next year.

With the new contract, Bredero Shaw has won contracts totaling more than $500m, including contracts for Shah Deniz Stage 2 and the associated South Caucasus Pipeline projects.

Recently, BP selected Emerson Process Management as the main automation contractor for the Shah Deniz Stage 2 project.

The project will add an additional 16 billion cubic metres per year of gas production to the approximated nine billion cubic meters per year of gas produced by Shah Deniz Stage 1.

Discovered in 1999, the Shah Deniz field is located about 70km south-east of Baku, at water depths of 50m to 550m.