Offshore staff

PARIS -- Shell Offshore Inc. has awarded a contract to Technip to provide engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) for a spar hull and mooring system for the Perdido Regional Host project.

The spar will be moored in approximately 2,438 m (8,000 ft) of water in Alaminos Canyon block 857 near the Great White discovery. It will gather production from the Great White, Tobago, and Silvertip fields.

According to the contractor, this will be the deepest water depth for a spar in the world, and it will also be the first designed with direct vertical access.

Technip's contract calls for design and fabrication of the spar's hull and mooring system, platform load-out and quayside delivery at a yard on the Gulf Coast, and design of the steel catenary risers, top tension risers, and umbilicals.

The company's operations and engineering center in Houston will provide the overall project management and engineering for project. The detailed hull design and fabrication will be carried out by Technip's yard in Pori, Finland.

The Perdido Regional Host will be jointly owned by Shell (35%), Chevron (37.5%), and BP (27.5%).

11/17/06