Baker Hughes and Saipem have confirmed contract awards from Eni for the deepwater Cronos gas development offshore Cyprus as well as other projects offshore West Africa and Indonesia.

For Cronos, Baker Hughes will supply the subsea production systems, comprising deepwater subsea trees, wellheads, connectors, manifolds, topside controls and associated services.

Work is already underway, with first equipment batches set to be delivered in the first half of 2027.

Due to Eni’s accelerated project schedule, Baker Hughes will work on standardized, configurable subsea production solutions to help lessen complexity, de-risk delivery and speed up progress towards first gas.

Saipem will conduct offshore drilling activities for Cronos using the drillship Saipem 10000. It expects activities to start sometime between November and January.

Contracts support Eni's multi-region offshore growth strategy

For Searah North Ganal’s Geng North and Gehem fields gas-condensate development offshore Indonesia (Searah is a joint venture between Eni and Petronas), Baker Hughes will supply 17 deepwater horizontal tree systems, associated manifolds and connections, subsea controls and distribution systems, and its Cordant asset protection and condition monitoring solutions.

Offshore Côte d’Ivoire, Eni has awarded Baker Hughes an integrated well construction contract for the deepwater Baleine Phase 3 project.

The scope of supply covers drilling services, digital solutions, drilling fluids, cementing, drillbits, liner hangers and wellbore clean out to support full-field production.

Saipem, meanwhile, will deploy its semisub Scarabeo 9 for a newly awarded drilling program offshore Ghana for Eni Ghana Exploration & Production.

Elsewhere, Baker Hughes’ offshore order book continues to swell; the company detailed multiple recent commissions in its latest results statement.

These include:

• Integrated offshore production enhancement and stimulation services for bp in the UK North Sea. Baker Hughes’s vessel-based solution will include its StimFORCE technology, designed to support new wells and enhance recovery from mature fields, to optimize reservoir performance across bp’s North Sea operations.
• A long-term service agreement with SBM Offshore, covering 27 LM2500 gas turbines spread across four FPSOs. The arrangement combines maintenance services with iCenter digital services for remote and condition-based monitoring.
• Subsea production systems and services for a gas field development in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, featuring Aptara trees, wellheads and associated distribution, controls and connections.
• For Petrobras, Baker Hughes will deploy its Cordant Process Optimization service at seven offshore production platforms to optimize compression operations, improve efficiency, reduce emissions and support production performance.
• Finally, the company will supply integrated FPSO equipment for gas compression and power generation at a large offshore field. The scope of supply includes centrifugal compressors driven by LM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines for medium- and high-pressure gas compression; electric motor-driven centrifugal compressors for low-pressure gas compression; and 4-pole generators driven by LM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines for power generation.