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BAKU – BP, the operator of major energy projects in Azerbaijan, has awarded a $600 million contract to AMEC for the provision of engineering and small project management services, BP Azerbaijan said Tuesday.

The contract will cover the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) and Shahdaniz offshore facilities and ACG, Shahdaniz, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) onshore facilities at the Sangachal Terminal as well as the Supply Base at Baku Deepwater Jackets Factory (BDJF).

The award of the contract follows an extensive and complex sourcing activity that spanned some 12 months. The duration of the contract is five years with two possible four-year extensions. The work will be carried out in Baku with involvement of the local company Azfen, BP Azerbaijan said.

Under the contract AMEC’s services will include engineering studies, design activities and labor aimed at identifying improvements in the efficiency of the process plant and equipment, design of modifications to BP-operated onshore and offshore facilities required to deliver improvements in process and plant efficiency or safety. AMEC will also implement repairs and maintenance of the existing plant and machinery. The company will also be in charge of design, engineering, installation, commissioning support for brown/green field facilities during implementation of projects as well as start-up support, etc.

"We have been using AMEC’s engineering and small project management services on our offshore brown-field projects since 2004," said Bruce Luberski, BP’s Vice-President for Azerbaijan Major Projects.

"We are pleased that under the new contract both BP, the operator of the offshore and onshore facilities, and AMEC will maintain their commitment to developing local engineers as part of their staff nationalization programs."