The Jack and St. Malo fields are located within 25 miles (40 km) of one another approximately 280 miles (450 km) south of New Orleans, Louisiana, in water depths of 7,000 feet (2,100 m).

KBR will provide design and engineering support through fabrication for the deep draft semi-submersible (semi) including: hull, deck box, accommodations, appurtenances, equipment foundations; mooring system design; and anchor suction piles. The semi will be designed to minimize vessel motion and allow acceptable fatigue lives of the moorings, risers and umbilicals.

KBR subsidiaries Granherne and GVA consultants will collaborate on the execution of this phase of the project. The award of this contract follows the successful completion of conceptual engineering and design, pre-FEED and FEED by KBR for the Jack & St. Malo FPU project.

In addition, KBR has won an engineering contract for Section 14-2 of the Tarrant Regional Water District's proposed 350 million gallon per day (MGD) raw water transmission pipeline system serving Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas.

Under this contract, KBR will undertake the preliminary design for 15.2 miles of a 108" pipeline in Navarro and Ellis counties. The project is being jointly funded by Tarrant Regional Water District and Dallas Water Utilities, and is expected to extend from Lake Palestine to Lake Benbrook with connections to Cedar Creek Reservoir, Richland Chambers Reservoir and a Dallas, Texas delivery point. The entire program includes more than 150 miles of large diameter pipelines.

Dennis Calton, president of KBR Oil & Gas, said: “Following the announcement of the detailed design contract for Big Foot in January 2011, KBR is overwhelmingly proud to accept the award for Jack & St. Malo FPU. As a company, we've worked strategically to re-enter the Gulf of Mexico. The opportunity to execute another project for Chevron in the Gulf positions KBR at the forefront of deep water field development.”

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