Aker Solutions with lowest bid for subsea frame agreement
2010.01.29 -
Subsea Headlines
Aker Solutions is the lowest bidder for a four-year frame agreement to supply 61 subsea trees to Brazilian national oil company Petrobras. This has been announced at a public bid opening in Brazil.
Standard procedure is that the company with the lowest bid enters technical clarifications and commercial negotiations with Petrobras. It is expected that this process will take a couple of months, and that a contract could be signed during Q2 2010.
Aker Solutions' bid stands at 195 million Euros.
Applied Acoustics has recently announced the sale of its 50th Easytrak subsea tracking system at Offshore Europe, Aberdeen. The system is one of a pair that has been ordered by CaspianLab in Azerbaijan for use in their operations in the Caspian Sea.
The Tampen Link pipeline for gas export from the North Sea’s Statfjord field to the St Fergus gas terminal in Scotland opened on Friday evening. The field is consequently beginning a new era.
StatoilHydro, as operator of the Troll field, has recommended to its partners to discontinue the Troll Future Development project.
Petrobras Americas Inc. has awarded Aker Kvaerner a contract to supply subsea power cables and control umbilicals to its Cascade and Chinook fields in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract, worth approximately USD 65 million, represents a significant breakthrough for Aker Kvaerner's power cable technology.
StatoilHydro will today, 25th of October, sign a frame agreement with Gazprom to become partner in the Shtokman development, phase 1.
