MMC AMEC wins engineering studies for Shell’s Malikai Deepwater project
28 October 2009
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (28 October 2009) – AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has announced that MMC AMEC, its joint venture with MMC Oil & Gas, has been selected to provide basic engineering studies for Sabah Shell Petroleum Company’s Malikai deepwater project, offshore Malaysia.
The value of the contract has not been announced.
It is the first deepwater front-end engineering and design contract to be executed in Malaysia and comprises basic engineering studies for the flow lines, risers, topside and hull for the Malikai platform, to be located approximately 110 kilometres offshore of the Malaysian state of Sabah. The platform will be a ‘dry-tree’ tension leg design in which the topsides are supported on a buoyant semi-submersible structure tethered by tendons to the sea bed.
“This is the second Shell contract MMC AMEC has won since the inception of the joint venture in September 2007,” said Mr Wan Alam Wan Hanafi, CEO of MMC AMEC. “Successful delivery of the project is key to the strategic growth of our work in the region and for this important client.”
Tony Cruddas, President of Growth Regions for AMEC’s Natural Resources division, added: “We are delighted to continue to support our long-standing customer Shell on their Malaysian deepwater projects. This new work builds on the significant deepwater experience of our Houston and London operations, which delivers expertise for customers globally”.
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Jane Gospel +44 (0)20 7539 1082 jane.gospel@amec.com
Frank Stokes +44 (0)1452 872121 frank.stokes@amec.com
Notes to Editors:
AMEC (LSE: AMEC) is a focused supplier of high-value consultancy, engineering and project management services to the world’s energy, power and process industries. With annual revenues of over £2.6 billion, AMEC designs, delivers and maintains strategic and complex assets for its customers. AMEC's Natural Resources, Power and Process and Earth and Environmental businesses employ over 21,000 people in more than 30 countries globally. www.amec.com
Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, MMC AMEC offers services out of Asia, specialising in large-scale integrated projects, including deepwater as well as providing more traditional Greenfield and brownfield engineering services, for both upstream and downstream sectors of the global oil and gas market. www.mmcamec.com.my
MMC Oil and Gas is a subsidiary of the MMC Group (market capitalisation RM11 bn), a utilities and infrastructure group, MMC Group (MYX:MMCCORP) has significant interests in ports, power and water generation, highway concessions, natural gas distribution, engineering and construction as well as oil and gas. www.mmc.com.my
The Malikai field lies in 565 metres of water in Block G off Sabah, 110 kilometres from Shell's Gumusut find in adjacent Block J and was discovered in 2004. Its recoverable reserves are estimated at more than 100 million barrels of oil equivalent. It is Shell’s second deepwater development project in Malaysia after Gumusut-Kakap.