Technip awarded contract by Valiant for Causeway development
2011.10.24 -
Subsea Headlines
Technip was awarded by Valiant Causeway Limited a lump sum contract, worth approximately €33 million, for the Causeway field development. This field is located about 450 kilometers North-east of Aberdeen, Scotland at a water depth of 150 metres.
This contract covers engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of rigid and flexible pipelines, subsea equipment as well as umbilicals(1), which will be manufactured by Technip’s wholly-owned subsidiary DUCO under a separate contract.
Technip’s operating center in Aberdeen will execute the contract, which is scheduled to be completed in the second semester of 2012. Rigid pipelines will be welded at Technip spoolbase in Evanton, Scotland, while the flexible pipelines will be manufactured in the Group’s flexible pipe plant in Le Trait, France. Vessels from the Group’s fleet will be used for the campaign, including Apache II, Normand Pioneer and Wellservicer.
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.
