The Netherlands: Heerema Fabrication Group Awarded 2 EPC Contracts by RWE DEA

Heerema Vlissingen, one of the three production locations of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), has been awarded the EPC contract of a minimum facilities platform for the Breagh A Development. This is the second contract this year to be awarded by RWE Dea UK to Heerema Vlissingen, following an award of an EPC contract in April earlier this year for a minimum facilities platform for the Clipper South Development.

For the Breagh A development, HFG will construct the jacket, topsides and piles at their Vlissingen yard in the Netherlands with a planned delivery date of late July 2011. The jacket will be approximately 85 meters tall with a total weight (including the piles) of some 4,000 tonnes. The topsides will weigh approximately 1,400 tonnes.

The Breagh A field is located in UKCS block 42/13 of the southern North Sea in 62 metres water depth, approximately 100 kilometres to the east of Teesside. Gas will be exported via a 20″ pipeline to be laid from the platform to the UK mainland.

The jacket, topsides and piles for the Clipper South development shall also be constructed in HFG’s yard in Vlissingen, with a planned delivery date of early July 2011. The jacket will be approximately 40 metres tall with a total weight (including the piles) of some 1,160 tonnes. The topsides will weigh approximately 2,000 tonnes.

The Clipper South field is located in UKCS blocks 48/19 and 48/20 of the southern North Sea in 23 metres water depth, approximately 169 kilometres to the east of the Theddlethorpe gas processing terminal. As operator RWE Dea holds a 50 percent interest, with the remaining 50 percent stake held by Fairfield Acer Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of Fairfield Energy plc). The Clipper South gas field lies in the Sole Pit basin within the Rotliegend tight-gas play fairway, and produced gas will be exported to the UK.

“The EPCs are a major milestone in bringing both fields into production. We are happy to award these contracts to such an experienced contractor as Heerema Vlissingen. We hope to achieve initial gas production of Clipper South during Q1 2012, with Breagh to follow during Q3 2012,” said Ralf to Baben, Chief Operating Officer of RWE Dea AG.

Remco van Gilst, Manager Commercial and Sales of Heerema Zwijndrecht and Heerema Vlissingen comments: “We are very happy to serve RWE again as a key customer and continuing our successful relationship. We are confident that both of these projects will be completed in time and most of all executed safely, hence reaffirming the reputation of Heerema and the services and quality our customer can rely on.”

Heerema Fabrication Group:

Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), headquartered in Zwijndrecht, the Netherlands, is a leading engineering and fabrication contractor for large and complex offshore structures to the global oil and gas and energy industry. HFG owns three large production locations of which two are situated in the Netherlands (Vlissingen and Zwijndrecht) and one in the United Kingdom (Hartlepool). In addition, HFG owns a fabrication facility in Poland (Opole) and an engineering company in the Netherlands (Zwijndrecht). Heerema Fabrication Group employs over 1,000 people. HFG is part of the Heerema Group.

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Source: HFG Heerema, August 9, 2010: