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system of the Sapinhoá Norte feld, and of Rota Cabiúnas Gas Export Pipeline. This

Petrobras projects the gas export FSHRs (free standing hybrid includes the design engineering, partial underway by Saipem risers) in both felds. procurement, construction, and installation

The offshore campaign will be conducted of a 24in., 380km pipeline connecting the FDS2

The Sapinhoá Norte and Cernambi Sul by the between 3Q 2014 and 2Q Cernambi feld (2250 m water depth) to

Brazil Focus felds are located about 300km off the 2015. The CTCO will fabricate the in-house the onshore Cabiúnas Terminal (TECAB). coast of the state of São Paulo, in water designed components of the SLWRs (PLET CTCO will serve as logistics base for the depth of 2200m. Saipem will perform the piles, PLETs, 6in. CRA wet insulated double pipes.The offshore campaign will be con- engineering, procurement, fabrication, joints) and of the FSHRs (buoyancy tanks, ducted between Q1 2014 and Q2 2014 by Castorone installation, and precommissioning of the foundation piles, top and bottom assembly the new fagship pipelayer and FDS2 ten SLWRs (steel lazy wave risers) that structures). by the for the additional construction compose the production and injection The second project is the Petrobras work.

Offshore challenges ahead authorities, including the Prefeitura the yard.

Municipal de Santos and the Prefei- The CTCO will also leverage the Ongoing is the offshore campaign of tura Municipal de Guarujá (PMG). opening of new local businesses, the EPIC contract for the P55-SCR

Memoradums of understanding have through a project in progress for the risers and fowlines to be installed by also been signed with the PMG and development of a business incuba- the FDS and the FDS2, multipurpose with the state of São Paulo. A part- tor. It offers opportunities to local en- J-lay and construction vessels, in the nership with SENAI (Serviço Nacio- trepreneurs through an ad-hoc obser- Roncador feld, a challenging deep- nal de Aprendizagem Industrial) will vatory composed by representatives water development in the Campos provide a two-year training program of industry, government, universities basin in water depths ranging from for local people to possibly work in and unions. 1,500m to 1,900m.

In 2011, Saipem started signifcant

EPIC contracts for Petrobras such

Specialty Engineering Worldwide as the 18in. Sapinhoá (Guará)-Lula offshore pipelines in 2130m water depth and the 18in. Lula-Cernambi offshore pipelines in up to 2232m water depth. The offshore campaign for both projects will be performed by the FDS2.

In 2012, Petrobras assigned Saipem two important contracts (see side article) for which the CTCO already started providing its services.

Pier Alberto Viecelli is assisting the Saipem

Services operations department in Brazil on an overall • Failure Investigation • Rotor Dynamics sustainable plan in • Field Testing • Rotating Equipment Analysis liaison with local • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) • Evaluation of Acoustic Pulsation authorities, and has • Finite Element Analysis (FEA) • Metallurgical and Metrology Lab been training fabrication personnel since 2011. Viecelli is a civil engineer • Stress Analysis • Fit for Service Analysis who graduated from Univesidade • Vibration Analysis • Expert Witness

Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil.

Andrea Intieri joined Saipem’s

Business Develop- ment deptartment this year. He gradu- ated with honors in industrial engineer- 281-282-9200 • www.knighthawk.com • Houston, TX ing from Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

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