Offshore staff
HOUSTON --Petrobras has awarded Wood Group Kenny (WGK) two contracts with a total value of over $2 million.
One is a conceptual engineering study for the pre-salt Lapa field (ex-Carioca) in 7,021 ft (2,140 m) of water in block BM-S-9, 170 mi (273 km) off the south coast of Rio de Janeiro.
This concerns two alternative pipeline heating systems, water-heated pipe-in-pipe (WH-PiP) and electrically trace-heated pipe-in-pipe (ETH-PiP). The results should provide Petrobras and partners BG and Repsol Sinopec with the basis to evaluate the technical feasibility of a southwestarea tieback on the field and to determine the most cost-effective technology.
The application of active heating pipeline technology would be a first in a pre-salt environment, WGK adds. The company’s scope includes studies of flow assurance analysis, mechanical and installation design, thermo-mechanical analysis, material selection, technological gap evaluation, cost assessment, and an installation capabilities survey.
It is supporting Petrobras and its partners from their offices in Rio de Janeiro, Houston, and London.
The second contract involves engineering support to provide conceptual, basic and detailed design deliverables to their subsea engineering group. In addition, WGK will be responsible for various engineering studies, focusing on optimizing riser, pipeline and equipment engineering design, with a view to increasing the competitiveness of a rigid solution for Petrobras' subsea development.
Lapa is thought to contain 459 MMboe recoverable.
9/1/14
