Aker Solutions wins contract to build Shell’s Jackdaw platform
OSLO (Reuters) – Norwegian engineering firm Aker Solutions said on Tuesday it has won a contract from Shell to build an offshore platform for Britain’s Jackdaw gas field.
The offshore field about 250 kilometres east of Aberdeen is expected to account for over 6% of British North Sea gas output at its peak production in by the middle of this decade, Shell has said.
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To lower the costs, the field will be produced by using a wellhead platform that is not permanently manned, tied-back to the nearby Shearwater platform.
Aker Solutions said it would book an order intake of between 2 billion and 3 billion Norwegian crowns ($206 million-$309 million) for the contract in the third quarter.
“We are pleased that Shell selects us to develop a cost-effective platform for this major North Sea gas field,” Aker Solutions said in a statement.
($1 = 9.7063 Norwegian crowns)
(Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis, editing by Terje Solsvik)