KBR bags Manatee gig from Shell

US engineer KBR has secured a contract from LNG giant Shell for the onshore portion of the latter’s Manatee gas field development project in Trinidad and Tobago.

KBR said on Monday it won the engineering and procurement services contract for the Beachfield Manatee upgrade, the onshore portion of the Manatee gas field project.

Under the contract, KBR will provide engineering and procurement services for Shell’s Manatee project located in the East Coast Marine Area of Trinidad and Tobago.

KBR did not provide the contract price tag.

The firm said the award follows recently completed contracts under which KBR delivered the front-end engineering design as an integrated member of Shell’s development team across the whole of the Manatee project.

Manatee to supply Atlantic LNG

In July, Shell took the final investment decision for the development of the Manatee gas field to supply Trinidad and Tobago’s Atlantic LNG export plant.

Shell Trinidad and Tobago previously awarded the engineering, procurement, construction, installation (EPCI), hook up, and commissioning contract to Houston-based McDermott.

According to Shell, Manatee will allow the company to competitively grow its integrated gas business by building on development efforts in the ECMA, one of the country’s most prolific gas-producing areas.

Shell said the Manatee gas field will provide backfill for the country’s Atlantic LNG facility, adding that increasing utilization at existing LNG plants is an “important lever” to maximize potential from Shell’s existing assets.

Shell is the operator of Manatee with a 100 percent working interest under the sub-Block 6D production sharing contract.

The project will involve a normally unattended installation platform located in the ECMA acreage with eight development wells via a 110 km pipeline to the Shell-operated onshore Beachfield gas processing facility, for onward export to the Atlantic LNG facility, and to the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago for the domestic gas market.

Shell expected Manatee to start production in 2027.

Once online, Manatee is expected to reach peak production of about 104,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) or 604 MMscf/d, according to Shell.

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