TPT May 2011

I ndustry N ews

Kenny awarded oil export pipeline design

WOOD Group’s JP Kenny has been awarded a contract to perform detailed design for Amberjack Pipeline Company LLC’s Jack/St Malo deepwater oil export pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico. Amberjack Pipeline Company LLC is a joint venture between Chevron Pipe Line Company and Shell Pipeline Company LP. Chevron Pipe Line Company will construct and operate the pipeline for Amberjack. The one-year contract follows JP Kenny’s successful completion of the front-end engineering and design for the project. The approximately 136-mile 24" pipeline will originate in a water depth of 2,100m (7,000ft). It will start at the Chevron USA Inc-operated Jack/St Malo hub production facility in Walker Ridge Block 718, approximately 280 miles south of New Orleans, and connect to the Shell Boxer ‘A’ fixed platform at Green Canyon Block 19. The design must allow for technical challenges that include routing of the pipeline to minimise spans, design for pre- and post-installation vortex-induced vibration and stress spans, collapse testing

of the pipe to verify wall thickness design, and installation of in-line valves and sleds. JP Kenny’s sister companies, MCS Kenny, MSi Kenny and Wood Group Integrity Management (WGIM), will support the project, providing subsea span analysis, flow assurance and materials engineering, respectively. “We are extremely pleased to continue our support of Amberjack as owner and Chevron Pipe Line Company as operator of the Jack/St Malo pipeline project,” said Steve Wayman, Wood Group Kenny chief executive officer. “The full experience and demonstrated capabilities of the Wood Group Kenny organisation will enable the project to safely and effectively support the future production from the Jack/St Malo hub production facility.” Wood Group Kenny comprises four companies: JP Kenny, one of the world’s leading independent subsea and pipeline organisations provides solutions that range from the planning stage through to procurement, fabrication, construction

management,

commissioning

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operations support. MCS Kenny is an engineering and software services company working in the offshore oil and gas subsea sector. MSi Kenny is a flow assurance and process optimisation company; and Wood Group Integrity Management is an independent engineering and management company, specialising in all-of-asset integrity assurance with materials engineering resources, service life prediction and inspection. Wood Group – UK/USA Website: www.woodgroup.com

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