Contracts let for Azeri Central East platform

Azerbaijan International Oil Co. has let two separate front-end engineering and design contracts to the SOCAR-KBR LLC joint venture for a production platform with drilling quarters, the Azeri Central East platform, for Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) field in the Caspian Sea.

The contracts cover FEED services for the new platform along with associated tie-ins to existing platforms in ACG field and a separate contract for the subsea services FEED. The contracts’ values were not disclosed.

SOCAR-KBR was formed in 2015 to help advance Azerbaijan’s efforts to create an Azerbaijan=based engineering company.