British Shtokman contractor operates from Norway
JP Kenny, the British company which has secured a major contract in the Shtokman project, will place most of its project staff in Norway.
No Norwegian engineering company got any of the attractive early phase Shtokman contracts. However, Norwegian specialists are still heavily engaged in the project. JP Kenny, which won the contract on the offshore pipeline projection, will have 60 percent of its project staff in its office in Stavanger, Norway. In an interview with Offshore.no, head of JP Kenny Norway, Mr. Petter Birkeland, says that more than 20 of the 40-person project staff will work from Stavanger. The rest of the group will operate from London and Sankt Petersburg. Mr. Birkeland believes Norwegian engineering companies will have good chances for later assignments in the project. JP Kenny, which provides pipeline and subsea engineering worldwide, already in December last year signed the letter of reward with Gazprom and has since January this year been engaged in the project. The project model chose at Shtokman will be a platform with 4-5 sub-sea wells, a pipeline from the platform and a land-based gas processing plant. All the project work will be completed within the second half of 2009, when the Gazprom Development Company will start engaging in Shtokman construction phase.
