Bumper pipeline work for Technip

Petrobras America has awarded Technip, the Paris-based engineering, technologies and construction services company, two contracts totalling more than $300m to develop gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico.

The contracts cover the development of the Cascade and Chinook gas fields located in the Walker Ridge area of the Gulf, in 2,500m and 2,700m of water, respectively.

The first contract includes the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of five free-standing hybrid riser systems for both fields. These are a type of riser, pipes used to transfer produced fluids from the seabed to surface facilities, consisting of a vertical rigid pipe section between the seabed and a submerged buoy and a catenary flexible pipe jumper between the submerged buoy and the floater.

The second contract includes the installation of the Cascade infield flowline, the installation of a gas export pipeline and the welding of 120km of 15cm and 23cm steel pipelines.