Husky offers White Rose to the market

To tender: WHP on location at white rose. Inset — concrete gravity structure in the purpose-built graving dock

HUSKY

By Iain Esau London

 17 January 2013 06:39 GMT

Calgary-based Husky Energy has hit the market with a prequalification inquiry to build a 172,000-tonne concrete gravity structure (CGS) for a wellhead platform destined for its West White Rose oil project off Newfoundland, Canada.

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.

The company has now begun FEED studies that are due to end this March. It is likely to be well positioned to…

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