Under the NOK6.7bn ($845.5m) contract, the joint venture will engineer, and construct the utility and living quarters platform.
The platform comprises a utility module and an accommodation module.
The joint venture’s subcontractors, under management of Kvaerner, will manufacture the utility module in Poland, and will be completed at Stord Norway. KBR will be responsible for engineering and procurement of equipment for the utility module.
The accommodation module will developed at Apply Leirvik’s yard in Stord Norway and in Emtunga Sweden and the topside modules will be assembled at Kvaerner Stord.
The contract also includes an option for commissioning assistance and offshore hook-up for the platform.
The NOK117bn ($15.3bn) phase one of the Johan Sverdrup field is estimated to have recoverable resources of 1.4 to 2.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent.
Statoil will operate all the phases of the field, and other partners include Lundin Norway, Petoro, Det norske oljeselskap and Maersk Oil.
Johan Sverdrup field senior vice-president Øivind Reinertsen said: "On plateau, production will account for 25% of all Norwegian oil and gas production.
"We have now awarded the project’s second main topside construction contract, and we are on schedule to meet an ambitious field development plan with production start on Johan Sverdrup at the end of 2019."
Image: Illustration of the Johan Sverdrup utility and living quarters platform. Photo: courtesy of Statoil.
