BP Trinidad & Tobago awards contract for offshore platform

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, May 5 -- BP Trinidad & Tobago LLC awarded Fluor Corp. additional contract work worth about $20 million toward the engineering and construction of BP's new offshore gas processing platform and other facilities in Trinidad and Tobago.

Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Fluor has teamed with two Trinidadian firms to provide front-end engineering and design, project engineering, procurement, and construction management services for BP's project. The project consists of an unmanned offshore platform designed to process 1 bcfd of natural gas, a subsea pipeline to a nearby platform, and a land-based facility to collect and meter nearly 3 bcfd of gas.

The project is scheduled for completion in June 2005.