South Korean victory: at Goliat
Hyundai lifts Goliat floater job
Italian giant Eni confirmed today that South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries will supply the floating production, storage and offloading unit for the Goliat feild development, in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea.
Earlier today, Norway's Aker Solutions issued a statement saying it had been knocked out of the race to provide the Sevan 1000 cylindrical floater.
Eni's Norwegian unit said the estimated contract value is Nkr6.9 billion ($1.1 billion).
Hyundai Heavy will carry out the engineering, procurement, construction, onshore commissioning and transportation of the unit.
Eni operatoes the Goliat development with a 65% stake. Its partner is Statoil, which has the remaining 35%.
Aker had teamed up with South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries in its bid to deliver the Sevan Marine-designed cylindrical floater.
“We are naturally disappointed, but our focus now is on winning other new-build projects and securing our offshore competence in a challenging market,” said Aker Solutions senior vice president for corporate communication Jannik Lindbaek.
Aker had planned to build the topsides for the unit and integrate it with the FPSO hull at its Stord yard, with the utilities modules would have been constructed at its Egersund yard. Samsung would have built the hull and living quarters at its facilities in South Korea.
Lindbaek said it was too early to say how the failure to win the contract would affect yard capacity at the Norwegian facilities.