Key project drivers were timely completion with minimum interruption to the current production facility and achieving the targeted increase in production performance. These goals were important to BP, its partners and Vietnam’s government, because the gas produced by the Lan Tay platform fuels power generation to produce around 35% of Vietnam’s total power supply.
In November 2005, BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd Vietnam awarded Ranhill WorleyParsons a contract to conduct a FEED study for the Lan Tay compression facility. The contract was subsequently extended to cover EPCM services. The project completed the FEED within the 20 week stretch target and completed all the EPCM activities – comprising engineering, procurement support, module fabrication management and offshore installation, hook‑up and commissioning management – within the following 65 weeks.
The project involved the design, fabrication and installation of a two train gas compression module with Solar Titan 130 turbines and Dresser‑Rand D10R5B compressors. The scope also included the associated brownfield modifications and tie‑ins necessary to debottleneck the existing Lan Tay platform, to ensure gas production output of 530 million standard cubic feet per day was achieved.
