Petrofac, in a joint venture (JV) with Turkish Standards Institution (TSE), has secured a three-year multi-million dollar Project Management Consultancy (PMC) services contract in support of the BOTAŞ North Marmara Underground Gas Storage Expansion Project (Phase III) in Turkey.

The existing facility, located approximately 60 kilometres west of Istanbul, has been in operation since 2007 and BOTAŞ intends to expand its working gas capacity to 4.6 billion cubic metres. The TSE Petrofac JV is responsible for managing and supervising areas which will cover the main phases and scopes of work. These include detailed design, engineering, procurement, construction, drilling and decommissioning, along with commissioning and start-up activities.

Roberto Bertocco, Managing Director, EPCm for Petrofac said: “We are pleased to partner with TSE in the delivery of this key project for BOTAŞ. This is our second award in Turkey in just under a year and is further evidence of our growth strategy in action. The opportunity to provide expertise and best practice through the provision of PMC services further demonstrates our capability to safely and effectively oversee key activities in the delivery of substantial programmes of work.”

Koray Yenigürbüz, Group Head at TSE and the JV Project Director, said: “The overall project involves the expansion of a key Turkish facility, with both onshore and offshore components. The TSE Petrofac partnership brings together significant international experience as well as local delivery capability and we look forward to working collaboratively towards the successful delivery of this project for BOTAŞ.”

About Petrofac

Petrofac is an international service provider to the oil and gas production and processing industry, with a diverse customer portfolio including many of the world’s leading integrated, independent and national oil and gas companies.

Petrofac designs, builds, operates and maintains oil and gas facilities, delivered through a range of innovative commercial models, enabling it to respond to the distinct needs of each client and helping them to transform the value of their assets across the oil and gas life cycle.

Petrofac’s service offering is underpinned by its ability to develop resource holders’ local capability through the provision of skills training with competency development and assurance frameworks. Around 20,000 employees operate out of seven strategically located operational centres, in Sharjah, Aberdeen, Abu Dhabi, Woking, Chennai, Mumbai, and Kuala Lumpur and a further 24 offices worldwide.

Petrofac is quoted on the London Stock Exchange (symbol: PFC)

About Botas

Petroleum Pipeline Company (BOTAS) was established based on the Decree No. 7/7871 with the purpose of tranporting Iraq’s crude oil to İskenderun Bay, in accordance with the Crude Oil Pipeline Agreement signed between the Governments of the Republic of Turkey and the Republic of Iraq on 27.08.1973. BOTAS was restructured as a State Owned Enterprise based on the Decree of the Council of Ministers No. 96/6526 dated 08.02.1995. BOTAS, subject to the Decree Law No. 233, established according to the provisions of private law is a State Owned Enterprise with a joint-stock company status.

BOTAS, whose all capital belongs to Republic of Turkey Undersecretariat of Treasury and is a related institution of Republic of Turkey Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, operates in crude oil transportation, as well as transportation, distribution, import, storage, marketing, trade and export of natural gas.