Initial responses are due next week, with the contract award expected late this year to tie in with project sanction and construction due to start in April 2014.

First oil from West White Rose, which is estimated to hold about 110 million barrels of oil, is currently targeted for the third quarter of 2016.

UK-based Arup completed pre-front-end engineering and design work on the CGS in the third quarter of last year.

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