The company said it will begin preliminary work on the project including purchase of long lead items for the hull in advance of the planned sanction date of December 2011.
Technip’s yard in Pori (Finland) will carry out detailed hull design and fabrication work, while the overall project management will be provided by the company’s operating center in Houston, Texas.
The Lucius Spar, which will have a capacity of more than 80,000 barrels of oil and 450 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, will be jointly owned by Anadarko (35%), Plains E&P (23.3%), ExxonMobil (15%), Apache (11.7%), Eni (5.4%) and Petrobras (9.6%).
France-based Technip is a provider of project management, engineering and construction services for the oil and gas industry.
