Industry sources said the UK supermajor has been carrying out an exhaustive tender involving yards throughout Asia and the US but is thought to have zeroed in on Samsung Heavy Industries of South Korea as its bidder of choice on the engineering, procurement and construction contract for the hull and topsides of the 140,000 barrels per day facility.
A formal award by BP would mark a deep-water US Gulf hat-trick for Samsung, which already won contracts to build the hulls of the last two major newbuild fabrication projects — Shell’s Appomattox semi and Hess’s Stampede tension-leg platform — awarded in the region in the last few years.
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