BP is set to launch a major, integrated subsea engineering and design contest next month on its PAJ 100 project off Angola where studies are already under way on the deep-water scheme’s 100,000 barrels per day floating production, storage and offloading vessel.

Industry sources said a pre-front-end engineering and design contest for PAJ’s subsea umbilical, riser and flowline system and its 10-well subsea production system will likely run until the end of this year.