Technip signs lump-sum contract with Statoil for Gullfaks project

Dec. 1, 2014
Technip has signed a lump-sum contract with Statoil for the Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen marine operations pipelay and subsea installation project.

Offshore staff

PARIS – Technip has signed a lump-sum contract with Statoil for the Gullfaks Rimfaksdalen marine operations pipelay and subsea installation project. This project is an option to the Snohvit CO2 solution project awarded in 2013.

The GRD project scope consists of a subsea tieback to a new Wye piece on an existing pipeline close to the Gullfaks A platform. The template will be located 190 km (118 mi) northwest of Bergen, Norway.

This contract covers the:

  • Fabrication and installation of two sections of pipe-in-pipe, total length 5.9 mi (9.5 km), with a 13% chrome stainless steel production flowline
  • Installation and tie-ins of three spools and a 5-mi (8.5-km) umbilical
  • Installation of a 280-ton template and a 110-ton manifold.

Technip’s operating center in Oslo, Norway, will execute the project. Vessels from the group fleet will install the template in 2015. The flowline will be welded at Technip’s spoolbase in Orkanger, Norway, while the installation will be performed by theApache II, in the first half of 2016. The installation of the associated manifold, spools, umbilical, and other subsea equipment will be performed by other vessels from the company’s fleet.

First gas is planned for the second half of 2016.

12/1/2014