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It's all hands on deck for Ekofisk



By Upstream staff 

ConocoPhillips has begun to issue bid documents covering a front-end engineering and design contest for the 10,000-tonne deck of its new Ekofisk accommodation platform off Norway.

Industry sources said a joint venture of Aker Kvaerner and Leirvik Module Technology is once again leading the hunt, two years after being lined up to design and build the platform's deck only for the US supermajor to shelve the project in early 2007, citing project implementation, schedule and cost risks.

Runner-up in the 2006 Ekofisk battle was a joint venture of Heerema and Emtunga Offshore, which also chased the work this time around but failed to get on the bid list.

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Friday, 04 July, 2008, 10:14 GMT  | last updated: Friday, 04 July, 2008, 11:28 GMT

No frills: after shelving the project, Conoco-Phillips is again evaluating bids for FEED work on its Ekofisk staff quarters platform off Norway
 

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