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pre-salt felds off Brazil. The award is esti- 3000m water depths, and will be equipped

Contract Briefs mated at US$500 million and represents with a pipe-lay system for installing fexible

Technip contract for Snøhvit the call-off of the remaining value of the fowlines and umbilicals, including a lay

Technip was awarded a lump sum contract $1.5 billion agreement announced in March system tower with 550-tonne, top-tension for pipelay and subsea installations for the of 2012. capability, twin underdeck baskets, for stor-

Snøhvit CO Solution project by Statoil. 2

The order includes 49 subsea trees, ing up to 4000tonne of fexible fowlines,

Global Briefs

Snøhvit feld is located about 140km north- tooling, and associated subsea controls. and two state of the art ROVs. Total cost west of Hammerfest, Norway. The project

The trees are scheduled to be installed in of the three vessels, inventories, commis- will establish an additional well at a new multiple pre-salt felds for both produc- sioning, and mobilization to Brazil, is about

CO injection template, as well as prepare 2 tion and injection wells. The equipment US$950 million.

for gas production from existing templates. will be designed and manufactured at FMC

The contract covers fabrication and instal-

Wood Group wins contract

Technologies’ facilities in Brazil. lation of fowlines, including two 5km, 13% extension chrome, stainless steel production fowlines

Subsea 7 wins

ConocoPhillips (UK) extended one of its and a 5km CO injection fowline; installation 2 three PLSV contracts longest running projects in the North Sea and tie-ins of spools, jumpers and umbilicals;

Subsea 7 will build and operate three, fex- under a US$60 million (£40 million) one- and installation of a new combined produc- ible, pipe-lay support vessels (PLSV) for year contract extension with Wood Group tion and injection template and manifold.

Petrobras under three fve-year contracts PSN. WGPSN will continue to provide

The fowlines will be welded at Technip’s worth about US$1.6 billion. The contracts operations and maintenance services, spoolbase in Orkanger, Norway, while instal- include project management, engineering and facilities modifcations services to lation will be performed by the Apache II and installation of fowlines, umbilicals, and ConocoPhillip’s 50 manned and unmanned in the frst half of 2015. Installation of the equipment supplied by Petrobras. offshore assets in the southern and central associated umbilicals, template, manifold,

The three new PLSVs will be based on North Sea and the onshore Theddlethrope spools and other subsea equipment will be similar design to the , and gas terminal in Lincolnshire.

Seven Waves performed by other Technip vessels.

will be built in Holland at the IHC Merwede shipyard. The vessels are scheduled to be

Saipem EPIC for Egina

FMC tree order delivered in 3Q 2016, 4Q 2016 and 2Q 2017. Saipem has been awarded the contract for

FMC Technologies, Inc. received an order

The PLSVs are designed to operate in the Nigerian subsea development of the from Petrobras for subsea trees for its

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