Technip awarded an EPIC subsea contract for the Gygrid project in Norway

abarrelfull wrote on 23 Feb 2011 08:36
Tags: norway services statoil technip

Latest News

• Want a weekly review of refining news?

• This Week in Refining
• RSS Feed

Technip was awarded by Statoil a contract, worth approximately €90 million, for the Gygrid field development located in the Norwegian Sea at a water depth of 265 - 330 meters.

This contract covers:

• engineering, procurement, welding and installation of flowlines*, including a 19.5 kilometer pipe-in-pipe production flowline, a plastic-lined water injection flowline and a gas lift flowline of the same length,
• subsea equipment installation,
• installation and tie-ins of new risers and umbilicals

.

Technip’s operating center in Oslo, Norway will execute the contract. Flowline welding will take place in the Group’s spoolbase in Orkanger, Norway, while installation will be performed by the Apache II, a pipelay vessel from Technip fleet, in mid-2012.

The contract is subject to approval of the plan for development and operation of Gygrid by the Norwegian authorities.

• Technip awarded an EPIC subsea contract for the Gygrid project in Norway

---