Offshore staff

PARIS – Technip has won its largest ever subsea installation contract on the UK continental shelf for Nexen’s Golden Eagle development in the central North Sea.

The lump-sum contract, worth around $172 million, involves reeling of mechanically lined pipe, designed to provide a cost effective alternative to high temperature, corrosive materials.

Technip’s scope covers engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of: 
• One production, one mechanically lined water injection, one gas lift, and two export flowlines 
• One main umbilical and two subsea isolation valve umbilicals 
• Subsea equipment 
• Trenching and backfilling of all flowlines and umbilicals, 
• Tie-ins, protection, pre-commissioning, and commissioning support.

The company’s operating center in Aberdeen, UK, will execute the project, which is due to be completed in the second half of 2014. Genesis, Technip’s consultancy subsea and offshore engineering company, will handle the detailed design work.

Flowlines will be manufactured at Technip’s flexible pipe plant in Le Trait, northern France, and the umbilicals at Duco in Newcastle, UK. Vessels used for the offshore campaign will include Apache II and Orelia.

SLP Engineering will fabricate the accommodation module. Nexen is the operator of Golden Eagle.

01/11/2012