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Jifmar Offshore

Orders ROVs

French Jifmar Offshore Services has ordered two Saab Seaeye

Cougar XT ROVs for a new

Algerian contract. This project will involve work at three different oil terminal points where the ROVs will be used for IRM tasks on structures, pipes, manifolds and the umbilicals at five SPM buoys.

Jean-Michel Berud, president of

Jifmar Offshore Services, said that the Cougars will undertake a num- ber of vital tasks that include checking the critical shape of the ‘Chinese lantern’ buoy structure and determining chain integrity.

To check the shape and location of these structures, the ROVs will be fitted with a 3D multibeam sonar.

And the chain thickness measured using a Tritech Typhoon laser scal- ing system. Jifmar is also planning to fit a water jetting cavitation cleaning system for blasting mol- lusc clear of the chains.

In addition the Cougars are equipped for a range of IRM tasks with equipment and tooling that includes low-light color and black and white wide-angle cameras on a pan and tilt mechanism; a USBL

Tracking System; and a dual five- function heavy duty manipulator skid. www.seaeye.com

DOF Adds Schilling ROV

Schilling announced an order for two 200hp UHD ROV systems from

DOF Subsea. In addition, two

UHDs delivered to DOF Subsea in ‘06 will be upgraded to the advanced

UHD Gen II design. Deliveries of the 4,000 meter rated UHDs are scheduled to start in 2010. www.schilling.com

ABS Support for Papa

Terra Field Development

ABS was selected to class two of the major components in Petrobras’ Papa

Terra offshore Brazil field develop- ment. The tension-leg wellhead plat- form (TLWP) known as P-61 and the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit known as P- 63 will both be ABS classed. The P- 61 is the first-of- its-kind TLP dry tree application to be installed in deepwater offshore Brazil. “ABS has a longstanding relationship with

Petrobras and, since dry trees are being considered as one of the solu- tions for deepwater exploration in the region moving forward, we are excited to class this unit and look for- ward to assisting Petrobras in achiev- ing another milestone in its explo- ration and production history,” says

Kenneth Richardson, ABS Vice

President, Energy Development.

Houston-based FloaTEC designed the TLWP which will be built at

Keppel’s BrasFels yard in Angra dos

Reis. The unit is a conversion of a very large crude carrier (VLCC) and, when completed, will have 16 top- side modules weighing more than 14,000 metric tons. The Papa Terra heavy oil field is located in the

Campos Basin approximately 110 km (68 miles) off Rio de Janeiro in water depths of up to 1,200 m (3,940 ft.). Petrobras and partner

Chevron are slated to put the field into production by late 2013.

Technip Wins Contract

Technip’s wholly-owned subsidiary

Duco Ltd. was awarded a seven year

Framework Agreement Contract by

Shell Upstream Europe for the sup- ply of umbilicals. The contract covers engineering, procurement, project management and associated services for the fabrication and loadout of thermoplastic umbilicals up to 17 km long. The Contract Provisions shall predominately service the

SWEEP portfolio of prospects in the

Southern North Sea, but also include new and existing requirements for

Central North Sea Assets.

Subsea 7 Picks BlueView

Subsea 7 selected BlueView

Technologies to provide the acoustic imaging systems for its new line of

Autonomous Inspection Vehicles (AIVs). Under this agreement,

BlueView will deliver both forward looking navigation and tracking sonar as well as ultra-high resolution

MicroBathymetry sonar for three dimensional tracking and mapping of pipelines.

DEA Books $30m Deal

The Marine Services division of

David Evans and Associates, Inc. (DEA) announced the award of a three-year, $30m capacity indefinite delivery contract with the National

Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration (NOAA) to provide

LiDAR (light detection and ranging) hydrographic surveying and related support services for anywhere in the

United States. www.deainc.com (Photo Jifmar Of fshor e Ser vices)