A consortium of Fluor, Worley­Parsons and KazGiproneftetrans will provide detailed engineering, procurement and management support services for the $37 billion expansion programme at the Tengiz oilfield in western Kazakhstan.

The KPJV consortium of the three companies will be working under an agreement signed in 2011 with Tengizchevroil (TCO), which developed Tengiz and is now carrying out a future growth and wellhead pressure management project to increase output by nearly 50%.

TCO