Oil and gas engineering company Technip has announced several new contracts for offshore projects in the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and off Australia.
The company has been awarded two subsea contracts under the diving frame contract with Statoil, for the Åsgard and Gudrun & Valemon projects in the North Sea. The total value of the contracts is around €45 million. The Åsgard contract includes deep water testing of the PRS remote hot-tap equipment, preparations works, installation of protection structures and the first remote retrofit tee hot-tap operation ever performed. The water depth on the Åsgard field is up to approximately 300 metres. The work will be executed in 2012.
The Gudrun & Valemon contract includes installation and tie-in of spools and power cable and also a Morgrip midline tie-in, all performed by divers. The water depth on the fields is approximately 140 meters. The work will be executed in 2013 and 2014. Both contracts will be executed by Technip's operating center in Stavanger and Haugesund, Norway.
Technip has also been awarded a contract by Exxon Mobil Corporation for subsea equipment on the Hadrian South natural gas project in the Gulf of Mexico in approximately 2,300 metres of water. The project consists of a subsea tie-back to the planned Anadarko-operated spar platform 'Lucius'. The contract covers: project management, procurement and installation of two 11-kilometre long flowlines(2) and associated jumpers; installation of a 14- kilometre umbilical, associated foundation and flying leads; and pre-commissioning. Technip's operating center in Houston, Texas, will execute the contract, with the flowlines welded at its spoolbase located in Mobile, Alabama. The 'Deep Blue', a deepwater pipelay vessel from the Technip fleet, will install the subsea equipment in 2013.
In addition, Santos Limited has awarded Technip a flexible pipe supply contract for the Fletcher Finucane oil field development, in Western Australia. The field is located in the Carnarvon Basin, offshore North Western Australia, at a water depth of 160 metres. The contract, which includes project management, engineering and the supply of 31 kilometres of production flowlines, along with 22 kilometres of service lines, will start in April, with delivery planned for the second semester of 2012.
Totalling more than 50 kilometres of pipes, the award will be the largest contract awarded to date to its flexible pipe plant, Asiaflex Products, in Tanjung Langsat, Malaysia, since the plant started operation in 2010. Technip's operating centre in Perth (Australia), one of its centers of excellence for flexible product design, will carry out the project management and engineering.
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