Woodside lets contract for Lambert Deep, Greater Western Flank fields

Woodside Energy Ltd. has let an integrated engineering, procurement, construction, and installation contract to TechnipFMC for work on the North West Shelf offshore Western Australia.

The contract, worth up to $250 million (Aus.) is for development of Lambert Deep and Phase 3 of the Greater Western Flank fields 126 km northwest of Dampier in the Pilbara region.

The work involves design, manufacture, delivery, and installation of subsea equipment, including a subsea production system, flexible flowlines and umbilicals for connection to the existing Angel platform which is connected by a 50 km subsea pipeline to the North Rankin complex which in turn is part of the Woodside-operated North West Shelf Project infrastructure.

The new contract is the second under the recently awarded 5-year iEPCI frame agreement between Woodside and TechnipFMC.

Woodside intends to drill four new production wells to support the project, three into the Goodwyn GH reservoir on Greater Western Flank fields and one into Lambert Deep field. Drilling is expected to begin in 2021.

Activity will take place across production licenses WA-5-L, WA-16-L, and WA-3-L, the latter containing the Angel platform.

Water depths in the region vary between 80-130 m.

There will be some modification of the Angel platform topsides to accommodate the increased production.