Subsea engineering and construction companies Subsea 7 has announced that it has been awarded a major engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning (EPIC) contract by Total E&P UK for the Laggan Tormore deepwater gas field development, West of Shetland in the North Sea.
The contract is valued in excess of US$250 million.
Subsea 7's principal scope of work comprises the engineering, fabrication and installation of 141 kilometre service pipelines and the engineering, supply and installation of one 124-kilometre and one 17-kilometre control umbilicals and associated subsea structures and tie-ins.
Project management and engineering work has commenced at Subsea 7's office in Aberdeen. Phase 1 offshore operations, encompassing pipelines and umbilicals installation and pre-commissioning activities, are scheduled to commence in the second quarter of 2012.
Phase 2 offshore operations, encompassing tie-in and commissioning activities, are scheduled to commence in the second quarter of 2013.
The Laggan and Tormore gas fields lie around 125 kilometres west of Shetland, in the United Kingdom's continental shelf in water depths of up to 600 metres.
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