Sakhalin 2, Phase II Pipelines Project for Sakhalin Energy Investment Company (SEIC) was an extremely complex and challenging project on a number of levels: political, environmental, cultural, regulatory, topography, geophysical, weather, etc.
TANAP
WorleyParsons nominated me for the construction director position on the project, formerly endorsed by TANAP. I was responsible and accountable for the entire execution phase of the project, including the development of the EPCM construction management team.
This 5-year contract provides project management, coordination, planning, design, engineering, construction management, contracting, procurement, project controls, and other services for the construction of the new pipeline and pipeline facilities, including compressor stations.
TANAP is predicted to carry 16 Bcm of gas a year from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz II field in the Caspian Sea, one of the world’s largest gas fields. A BP-led consortium is developing the field, which will run from the Turkish-Georgian border to Turkey’s borders with Bulgaria and Greece.
The 1,841km Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline Project has an estimated total cost of USD 11.7 billion. TANAP is designed to transport Caspian natural gas from the Georgian-Turkish border to Turkey’s western border with Greece. Initially, it will carry production from Azerbaijan but will connect with the 870 km long Trans-Adriatic Pipeline, which will transport natural gas from the Shah Deniz II field to Europe.
Shah Deniz Stage 2 project. The onshore pipeline consists of 1,370 km of 56-inch and 470 km of 48-inch diameter pipelines divided into 4 separate Lots. After a robust tendering and evaluation period, each Lot has been awarded under separate construct-only contracts to 4 contracting entities.
In addition, EPCM services included oversight of the early works construction programme to construct six no. 850-man camps to facilitate accelerated contractor mobilisation and early in-field construction, which is expected to start in April 2015 and be completed by the end of 2018 in order to start gas deliveries from Shah Deniz II to Europe in 2019.
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The Baku, Tbilisi, Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is a large diameter, long distance pipeline (1,768 Km) developed by BP as the operator to transport crude oil from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field in the landlocked Caspian Sea to a marine shipping terminal (Haydar Aliyev) on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey.
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