FMC to supply subsea systems to Gumusut-Kakap

Offshore staff

HOUSTON -- FMC Technologies Inc. has been awarded a contract by Sabah Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. for the supply of deepwater subsea systems for the Gumusut-Kakap project.

The Gumusut-Kakap project is offshore East Malaysia, Sabah, in blocks J & K, in water depths of approximately 4,000 ft (1,250 m). Phase one of the project includes 15 subsea trees, five manifolds, subsea drilling systems, control systems, flow line connections, and related subsea equipment and life-of-field support. Deliveries are expected to commence in late 2008.

The Gumusut-Kakap project becomes the first Malaysian subsea project to be engineered and manufactured at FMC Technologies' facilities in Kuala Lumpur and Nusajaya, Malaysia.

1/31/2008