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Burullus Awards West Delta Contract to Bechtel and INTEC Engineering Consortium for Development of Natural Gas Fields Offshore Egypt

December 13, 1999

December 13, 1999—Burullus Gas Company, a joint venture between BG International, Edison International SpA, and Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, has awarded a contract valued at more than $50 million in its West Delta Deep Marine concession to a consortium of Bechtel and INTEC Engineering. The consortium will provide deepwater management contractor services to the Scarab and Saffron natural gas fields offshore Egypt in the eastern Mediterranean.

The development area consists of two main structures, Scarab and Saffron, which contain high-grade methane gas with very low levels of condensate and little or no hydrogen sulfide or carbon dioxide. The area lies some 90 kilometers from the Nile Delta shoreline in water 250 to 850 meters deep.

The $600 million development will comprise a long-distance subsea tieback to new onshore facilities located adjacent to the Rosetta onshore processing plant near Alexandria.

The initial development phase will include eight subsea wells tied back to two manifolds and--via pipelines--to shore. A multiplexed electrohydraulic control system and umbilicals will control the wells from shore. The onshore processing plant will be designed to deliver up to 600 million standard cubic feet per day of gas and 3,000 barrels per day of condensate. Treated gas will be exported via a new pipeline and metered at the tie-in to the Egyptian National Transmission System.

Provisions will be made for future expansion by means of additional wells and manifolds, up to approximately 20 wells in total, to maintain the plateau production profile, as well as onshore gas compression facilities.

Bechtel will be responsible for the gas plant engineering and overall procurement and project management under the contract. INTEC will be responsible for the offshore segment of the project. The engineering phase will start immediately, with first gas scheduled for January 1, 2003.

Bechtel is a global engineering, construction, development, and management company employing 40,000 people worldwide. The company is engaged in about a thousand projects in some 60 countries and has worked in 140 countries on all seven continents.

INTEC Engineering is an international engineering firm that specializes in deepwater production and transportation systems. Its web site is at www.intec-hou.com.