Offshore staff

LONDON – Shell has contracted Subsea 7 for two engineering and installation contracts for Cardamom and West Boreas in the Gulf of Mexico.

At West Boreas, Subsea 7 will install a 6,096 m (20,000 ft) long umbilical and subsea distribution hardware in water depth to 959 m (3,146 ft) in Mississippi Canyon.

At Cardamom, Subsea 7 will install a 9,266 m (30,400 ft) long umbilical plus subsea distribution hardware in water depths to 914 m (2,999 ft) in Garden Banks.

Subsea 7’s Skandi Neptune construction vessel will be used at both jobs.

12/12/2011