Expro will provide testing, large bore subsea landing string, well intervention, fluid analysis and surface sampling services for a significant scope of development work with an initial phase encompassing more than 20 high-rate gas production wells.

Work on the project will start late this year, for completion by 2017/18.

The contract scope of supply includes a single train high rate well testing package incorporating Expro's 175 million standard cubic feet per day mega-flow recycling test separator and 7-inch ELSA LBEH - large bore landing string assembly - along with wet gas metering and wireline services in order to complete, clean up and prepare the wells prior to moving into the production phase.

Expro said its well testing system had been specifically designed to allow wells to be produced at maximum flow rate potential, reducing clean-up time and removing drilling mud, debris and completion fluids from the wellbore before handing over to the facility and production operations.

Expro Australasia business development manager Stephen Bisset said the contract boosted the company's growth in the Asia region, specifically in the Australian market where demand for its well test, subsea, slickline and sampling services continued to increase.

"For this project, we have leveraged our bespoke high-rate well testing package and class-leading subsea landing strings to cement our relationship with a new customer in Australia," he said.