Bechtel is developing India’s first deepwater gas field in the Bay of Bengal.
The KG-D6 Gas project, for Reliance Industries Limited, encompasses subsea equipment, pipelines, a riser platform, and an onshore terminal. Bechtel is managing engineering, procurement, installation, and commissioning of the project. Initial capacity of KG-D6 will be 2.8 billion cubic feet of gas per day--sigfnicantly increasing India's production capacity.
The project will consist of 22 subsea wells in water up to 3,937 feet (1,200 meters) deep, with the potential to expand to 50 wells. Most of the wells are 22 to 25 miles (35 to 40 kilometers) offshore. KG-D6 is Reliance’s first offshore gas field development and its first underwater discovery, as well as the largest such discovery in the world in 2002.
The project also includes routing seven pipelines up the Nilarevu River, and construction of a large onshore gas terminal 18.6 miles (30 kilometers) south of Kakinada to receive the gas from the offshore system, dehydrate it, compress it, and feed it into an onshore pipeline that leads to Mumbai.
Project teams are working in Mumbai and Kakinada, India; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Melbourne, Australia; Oslo, Norway; Delft, Netherlands; London; and Houston. Bechtel has enlisted the help of a specialist subcontractor to provide expertise in deepwater pipelines and subsea equipment.
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