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Contract Briefs and DWHC 700 high capacity wellheads;

Xodus wins pipeline contracts similar GE technology has previously been Xodus Group secured two contracts from Technip wins Julia contract

ExxonMobil handed Technip a contract installed at several other Mexican oil felds Abu Dhabi-based Valentine Maritime (Gulf) for Julia feld, a US$4 billion project Exxon including Perdido, Lakach and Kunah. L.L.C. The frst is for new subsea pipelines and partner Statoil announced last month. in the Arabian Gulf off Qatar’s northeast

The contract covers project management, coast. It involves design of a new 6.4km Emerson wins Gorgon contract engineering, fabrication, installation, and Emerson Process Management (EPM) was long, 24in. water injection pipeline, includ- pre-commissioning of more than 48km of awarded contracts by Chevron Australia ing risers and two J-tubes. The project is 10.75-in. OD insulated fowlines, steel cat- Pty Ltd., valued at US$67 million, to provide due for completion by the end of 2013.

enary risers, and fowline end terminations. natural gas valves, actuators, and valve The second is for the pipeline installa-

Technip’s operating center in Houston controllers at the Gorgon Project. tions in Fateh feld including: a 30in. by will perform project management, with The contracts include more than 6.7km subsea oil pipeline, a 30in. by 4km detailed fowline design by Technip subsid- 1,000 control valves, actuators, and valve subsea oil pipeline, and a 16in. by 6km iary, Genesis. The offshore installation is controllers. Emerson’s Roxar subsea wet subsea water injection pipeline. All include expected to be completed in 2015 by gas meters will also be used. EMC has new risers and tie-ins.Deep

Blue, aTechnip pipelay vessel. support from facilities in Australia and is working with Perth-based Western Process Sakhalin RMR win for AGR

Wood Group secures contract Controls to train instrument and valve AGR has been contracted to provide riser-

Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) has secured technicians. less mud recovery services for an operator its second North Sea duty-holder con- working off Sakhalin. The US$3 million tract extension this year. Valued at about contract will see AGR Enhanced Drilling GE tapped for propulsion

US$200 million (£140 million), the life-o- GE’s Power Conversion business was provide riserless mud recovery (RMR) feld contract from Ithaca Energy will see awarded a contract by the Eastern services over this summer drilling season.

WGPSN operate and deliver managed Shipbuilding Group in Panama City, Fl. The In this area drilling operations have chal- services to the Beatrice offshore platforms contract entails GE supplying integrated lenging top-hole conditions and stringent and Nigg onshore terminal until the end of diesel-electric power, propulsion and ves- environmental regulations.

their operating life. This contract secures sel control systems for two multipurpose

C-MAR wins FMEA contract almost 200 UK jobs. supply vessels (MPSVs) with installed horsepower of 12,070 BHP (9,000 kW). C-MAR Group announced that it won a

GE wins subsea deal Eastern will build the MPSVs for Hornbeck contract, worth over $500,000, to carry

GE Oil & Gas and Pemex Exploration and Offshore Services of Covington, La. The out Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA)

Production have signed an US$84 million new contract is for the frst of two multipur- surveys and trials on Maridive Group ves- agreement for the supply and installation pose support vessels for the company. The sels for the next fve years. The agreement of subsea wellheads for Pemex’s deepwater systems include DO2, power management, covers 16 Maridive DP vessels to be ser- and ultra-deepwater drilling projects in alarm and monitoring, vessel control and viced from C-MAR’s Singapore, Dubai and the Gulf of Mexico. GE will supply SMS800 an integrated bridge system. Rio de Janeiro offces.

production from the Lula 25,000b/d, but it will be P-61 TLWP will be installed

Nordeste feld in the Santos restricted to 13,000b/d later this year at the Papa

Basin presalt play. It is about during the frst month as Terra heavy oil feld for 300km off Brazil, in the processing and reinjection Papa Terra BV- a joint ven- northeast corner of Block systems are commissioned. ture company formed by

BM-S-11. Petrobras will connect Petrobras and Chevron.

The FPSO can process another seven production

H up to 120,000bo/d and wells and six injection Gryphon Alpha FPSO 5MMcm/d of gas. Petrobras, wells. Peak production, Maersk Oil’s vessel, stationed in 100-1,000m deep water operator, said the frst well 120,000 b/d, is expected for about 280km northeast of and has potential in Upper (7-LL-11-RJS) to be con- 2H 2014. Aberdeen in the North Sea,

Cretaceous strata. The work nected to the platform has has undergone a major dry

G program includes a 3D seis- the potential to produce dock overhaul, while infeld

FloaTEC mates mic survey and one explora- subsea infrastructure was

P-61 modules tion well in the next three FloaTEC Singapore Pte Ltd. removed and replaced. A 4D years. Petronas Suriname mated the topsides and hull seismic survey and near-feld remains the operator. of Petrobras P-61, Brazil’s drilling was also done over frst tension-leg wellhead the area.

F platform (TLWP) near the The project was necessary Cidade de Paraty in

BrasFELS yard in Angra after the vessel was dam- production

FPSO Cidade de Paraty dos Reis, southern Rio de aged in a storm on went on stream, beginning Janeiro state, Brazil. The 4 February 2011. Maersk Oil

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