Offshore staff

PARIS --Shell Offshore Inc. has awarded a contract to Technip subsidiary Duco Inc. for the umbilicals to develop the Gulf of Mexico's GreatWhite, Tobago, and Silvertip fields which will produce through the Perdido project.

The contract is for engineering and manufacturing of four dynamic and three static umbilicals, two steel-tube flying leads with topside and subsea hardware, and a prototype. Total umbilical length is 53,466 m (33 mi). The prototype is for qualification testing to prove the design.

Great White, Tobago and Silvertip fields are scheduled for development via a Perdido regional host in Alaminos Canyon, approximately 322 km (200 mi) south of Freeport, Texas, in about 2,438 m (8,000 ft) of water, the direct vertical access spar will be the deepest spar production facility in the world. This spar was the subject of a contract already awarded to Technip for construction in its yard in Pori, Finland.

First production from Perdido is expected around the turn of the decade.

12/22/2006