The A$1.6 billion project includes installation of the North West Shelf Venture‘s third major offshore production platform off the North West Shelf and associated infrastructure, including a new 50km subsea pipeline tied in to the North Rankin platform.

WorleyParsons in a joint venture with KBR, has been awarded the Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management contract for the Angel gas and condensate production platform. The subsea engineering of the export pipeline to NRA, tie-ins and flowlines is being performed by J P Kenny. FMC Technologies will supply subsea trees, production controls and associated equipment. The Clough Aker Kvaerner Joint Venture will perform all installation engineering and construction activities related to transportation and installation of the Angel topside module, weighing approximately 7000 tonnes.

J. Ray McDermott, S.A. ("J. Ray") was awarded a contract valued at approximately $200 million, for substructure and pipelay installation. The contract will involve transportation of the 7,500MT jacket and piles by J. Ray's launch barge, the Intermac 650, from a fabrication yard in China to the offshore installation site as well as the launch, upend and set down of the jacket. One of J. Ray's marine vessels will install the jacket and pipelines. The project will be managed by J. Ray's office in Perth, supported by its regional headquarters in Singapore. Installation engineering will be supported by J. Ray's marine construction engineering group based in Dubai. The construction of drilling work decks, caissons and other items will be performed at the company's Batam Island fabrication facility in Indonesia.

UK-based offshore accommodation specialist Ferguson Modular was awarded A$2.5 million (US$2 million) contract for the supply of an accommodation complex comprising of the hire of six eight-man accommodation modules plus an office and a medic module, and the purchase of a galley and a food store module. The units will be linked and stacked to form a complex capable of sleeping up to 48 persons on the normally unmanned fixed gas processing platform.

DeepOcean ASA's subsidiary CTC Marine Projects Ltd., has been awarded a contract with a value of over GBP 10 million for the installation of a 51 km power cable linking the existing North Rankin A platform with the new not normally manned Angel Platform. In addition, three umbilicals will be installed to connect the Angel Platform to adjacent subsea production trees. The installation is scheduled to be performed between January and July 2008 and will be managed by CTC Marine Projects and Woodside Energy teams based in the UK and Australia.

Drilling of the three production wells is scheduled between Q3 2006 and Q2 2007. The Angel facilities are expected to be installed and fully operational by Q4 2008.