Australia-based oil, gas and resource services company WorleyParsons has secured a new engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract for the $11.7bn Trans Anatolian natural gas pipeline project (TANAP) linking Turkey and Greece.
The 1,800km pipeline will transport Caspian natural gas from the Georgian-Turkish border to Turkey’s western border with Greece. The planned capacity of the pipeline is 16 billion cubic metres of natural gas a year in 2020 to be increased to 23 billion cubic metres in 2023 and 31 billion cubic metres in 2026.
The governments of Turkey and Azerbaijan signed a memorandum of understanding in 2011 to develop the project, which will initially take production from the BP Shah Deniz stage two project in Azerbaijan.
WorleyParsons will provide project management, co-ordination, planning, design, engineering, construction management, contracting, procurement, project controls and other services for the pipeline and facilities. The company described the contract as strategically important but said that fees for EPCM were significantly lower for pipeline projects than for complex process projects.
WorleyParsons chief executive officer Andrew Wood said: "We look forward to supporting TANAP in the successful delivery of this project."
TANAP general manager H Saltuk DÜZYOL said that the contract is critical to the success of the major link in the Southern Gas Corridor which is regionally significant to meet future gas demand in both Turkey and the EU.
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By GlobalData"WorleyParsons is well-qualified to perform the required services, and has demonstrated their commitment to working collaboratively with all project stakeholders to achieve the project objectives," DÜZYOL added.
US-based construction firm Bechtel and its local partner Enka are undertaking a front-end engineering and design study for the project.
