| In todays Project News we feature the story of Technip winning a US$200 million contract from Petrobas off the coast of Brazil. When it comes to the Subsea Business, Technip are seeming to pick up all the contracts or are they the only company in the subsea business who actually tell you they are winning the contracts? Does anyone know? Please read the full Press Release below:
Technip Wins US$200 million Charter from Petrobras |
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Technip has won an approximately $200-million contract from Petrobras for the four-year charter of its flexible pipe laying vessel Sunrise 2000, operating offshore Brazil. This contract could be renewed for four years. The Sunrise 2000 is a dynamically positioned vessel specially designed to install flexible flowlines and umbilicals in water depths down to 2,000 meters.
The vessel is able to simultaneously lay three lines, either flowlines or umbilicals, and for that purpose has built-in carousels providing the vessel with a cargo capacity of 3,775 tons of products and is equipped with Technip’s patented vertical lay system (VLS). This technology allows the installation of flexible pipes up to a maximum dynamic load of 270 tons.
The Sunrise 2000, which has been under long term contract with Petrobras since 1995, successfully installed subsea pipes for the development of the Roncador, Albacora Leste, Marlim and Marlim Sul fields, among other projects.
–Flowline: a pipe, laid on the seabed, which allows the transportation of oil/gas production or injection of fluids. Its length can vary from a few hundred meters to several kilometers.
–Umbilical: an assembly of hydraulic hoses that can also include electrical cables or optic fibers used to control subsea structures from a platform or a vessel. With a workforce of 22,000 people, Technip ranks among the top five corporations in the field of oil, gas and petrochemical engineering, construction and services. Headquartered in Paris, the Group is listed in New York and Paris.
The Group’s main operations and engineering centers and business units are located in France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, the USA, Brazil, Abu-Dhabi, China, India, Malaysia and Australia. In support of its activities, the Group manufactures flexible pipes and umbilicals, and builds offshore platforms in its manufacturing plants and fabrication yards in France, Brazil, the UK, the USA, Finland and Angola, and has a fleet of specialized vessels for pipeline installation and subsea construction. |
Project News – Technip Wins US$200 million Charter from Petrobras
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