Italy’s engineering and construction specialist Saipem has announced the award of a €8.5 million contract to fellow Italian firm Next Geosolutions (NextGeo) to deliver survey and installation support work for the offshore Bouri Gas Field Utilisation Project (BGUP) off the Libyan coast.
Under the agreement, NextGeo will deploy two specialised vessels the NG Worker and NG Surveyor to perform touch-down monitoring via work-class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and provide construction support services, including pipeline delivery, during Saipem’s installation phase.
The BGUP scheme, for which Saipem holds a far larger EPCIC contract, aims to upgrade the Bouri platform and associated infrastructure to capture and process the field’s associated gas a move seen as both commercially strategic and environmentally significant in the North Africa region.
The contract is scheduled to begin operations in the fourth quarter of 2025 and run for several months with possible extensions. For NextGeo, this award represents a meaningful step in widening its offshore oil and gas service footprint beyond its traditional survey work into installation support.
This development underscores the increasing collaboration among specialised service providers and major upstream players in the energy sector, particularly in the Mediterranean region where Libya’s ambition to monetise its gas resources is gaining renewed momentum.