Australian oil and gas company Woodside Petroleum Ltd. has awarded engineering and technical services firm John Wood Group PLC with a contract to support the execution of concept for the proposed upstream development of the Scarborough natural gas field offshore western Australia.

Secured under a long-standing master services agreement, the contract covers: concept definition-level engineering associated with the floating production unit, subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines; flow assurance; and overall system integration of the upstream development.

Work will be delivered by Wood's specialist field development studies team in Houston, Texas and Perth, Australia.