Aibel Thailand has signed the contract for the topside procurement and fabrication of the Tweneboa, Enyenra & Ntomme (TEN) project with MODEC. The scope includes seven modules with an overall weight of 9,400 tonnes.

The modules will be transported from Aibel’s yard in Thailand to Singapore where they will be integrated on a Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit, before the FPSO is installed offshore Ghana.

“We are very pleased to continue our good relationship with MODEC here in South East Asia. This project follows on from Tupi, Guara and OSX-3 and we expect additional projects from MODEC in the future,” says Nick Routledge, VP Operations and Business Development Aibel Asia.

First steel cut late April
The project represents a substantial amount of work for the yard in Thailand next year. The project activities will start with first fabrication late April 2014. The final module will be loaded out at the end of April 2015.

About Aibel

Aibel is a leading service company within the oil and gas industry and is established in renewable energy.

The company`s around 6,000 employees in Norway and abroad are engaged onshore and offshore. With eight locations in Norway, the company is located near the customers. In addition to operations in Norway, Aibel is also located in Thailand, Singapore, United Kingdom, Denmark and Egypt.

About Modec

The client is MODEC Offshore Production Systems (Singapore) Pte Ltd., the construction arm of Mitsui Ocean Development & Engineering Co., Ltd (MODEC), a major Japanese owned shipowner and FPSO operator.

MODEC has main offices in Tokyo, Singapore and Houston. The company currently operates more than a dozen countries and has built more than 25 FPSO/FSO’s around the world.

About Tullow

The end client is Tullow Ghana Ltd.The FPSO will operate in deep waters off Ghana, West Africa.

Tullow is a leading independent oil & gas, exploration and production group, quoted on the London, Irish and Ghanaian stock exchanges (symbol: TLW) and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The Group has interests in over 150 exploration and production licences across 25 countries which are managed as three regional business units: West & North Africa, South & East Africa and Europe, South America and Asia.