Offshore staff

TORONTO, Canada -- V&M do Brasil has awarded Bredero Shaw a $25-million contract for anti-corrosion and flow assurance work for Shell's BC-10 deepwater offshore oil pipeline project. Coating will begin in 3Q 2007 at the company's facility adjacent to the V&M do Brasil seamless pipe mill in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Approximately 81 km (50 mi) of 6-, 8-, 10- and 12-in. diameter pipe in the Campos basin will be coated with a syntactic polypropylene flow assurance insulation coating. Approximately 64 km (40 mi) of 6- and 8-in. diameter pipe will be coated with three-layer polyethylene and fusion bonded epoxy anti-corrosion coatings. The pipelines will be installed in water depths to 2,000 m (6,562 ft).

Bredero Shaw says the introduction of syntactic polypropylene coatings at the Bredero Shaw Revestimentos de Tubos Ltda. facility is a key in the company's overall strategy to serve the growing South American market.

5/9/2007