JGC will carry out most of the FEED work, which is scheduled to take 14-15 months, at the MW Kellogg office in the UK. MW Kellogg is a joint venture between JGC and the US' Kellogg Brown & Root, which carried out the pre-FEED studies on the project.

Shell signed in October a heads of agreement with QP for the project, which will see the construction of two 70,000-barrel-a-day GTL trains.

The deal also calls for the construction of two wellhead platforms in the North field. Shell spudded its first appraisal well in mid-February to determine the reservoir properties and structure and to validate the composition of the gas in the area allocated to the project. The first train is scheduled for completion in 2008/09 (MEED 20:2:04).