Saipem has secured a second contract on the third phase of Turkey’s Sakarya gas development in the Black Sea, adding a $425 million scope to connect the recently discovered Goktepe field with Phase 3 facilities, the company said on Wednesday.
The award from Turkish Petroleum Offshore Technology Center (TP-OTC) is an EPCI contract covering three subsea pipelines with a total length of approximately 153 kilometres and associated subsea structures, forming the link between the Goktepe reservoir and Sakarya Phase 3 infrastructure.
The new contract is expected to run for about two and a half years and will be managed alongside Saipem’s earlier Sakarya Phase 3 award signed in September, which is valued at about $1.5 billion.
Under that first package, Saipem is responsible for the EPCI of eight rigid flowlines and a 24-inch gas export pipeline of roughly 183 kilometres, running from the offshore field, where water depths reach around 2200 metres, to the onshore gas facility at Filyos on Turkey’s Black Sea coast.
Offshore installation for the latest pipeline scope is scheduled for the second half of 2027 and will be executed using Saipem’s pipelaying vessel Castorone, according to the contractor.
The Goktepe field is located in the Turkish sector of the Black Sea, about 80 kilometres from the Sakarya field, in water depths of approximately 2200 metres. In May, state-owned Turkish Petroleum estimated that Goktepe holds gas potential of around 75 billion cubic metres, based on geological and reservoir engineering studies.
Sakarya’s third phase will use a new unit for floating production (FPU), supplied under contract, which will receive output from 27 wells in the Sakarya and Amasra fields. Production from these wells will be routed through a new trunkline to the Filyos onshore facility.
A series of major awards for international contractors has already been announced for Phase 3. In September, Baker Hughes reported it will provide subsea production systems and intelligent completion equipment for the development. In the same month, Wison New Energies confirmed an EPCIC contract to deliver the FPU.
In August, Subsea7 said it had been awarded an EPCI contract to install a SURF system comprising umbilicals, risers and flowlines for the project, in a deal valued at up to $1.25 billion.
With two contracts now awarded on Sakarya Phase 3, Saipem is one of several international players delivering subsea and pipelaying work on Turkey’s Black Sea gas development.
