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Saipem has adjudicated new Offshore contracts E&C for 1,5 billion dollars
New activities in Iraq, Nigeria, Sea of the North and Gulf of Mexico
October 17, 2011
The Saipem Italian has adjudicated new Offshore contracts E&C for a total value of 1,5 billion dollars. In Iraq the company has obtained, on behalf of South Oil Company, a contract of type EPIC in the within of the project Iraq Raw Oil Export Expansion - Phase 2, that it has as scope the expansion of the Basra Oil Terminal, to the wide one of the Peninsula of Al Faw, in the Persian Gulf, to about 550 south-east kilometers of Baghdad. The contract previews engineering, supplying, the manufacturing and the installation of a Central Platform of Convoy and Measurement (CMMP), that it will be installed in waters of depth of 28 meters, as well as of the connected structures. The activities of manufacturing of the topside will be carried out in the yard Saipem di Karimun, in Indonesia, while jacket and the poles of foundation will be manufactured in the yard Saipem Taqa To - the Rushid (STAR) of Dammam, in Saudi Arabia. The activities to sea will be realized in the third and fourth trimester of 2013.
In Nigeria Saipem it has acquired from Total E&P Nigeria Limited contract OFON2 - D030, for new infrastructures to sea of the Ofon field, situated about to 50 kilometers from the southern coast of Nigeria. The Italian society will carry out the activities of engineering, supplying, manufacturing and installation of jacket the OFP2 (included the structures of the jacket, the weight of 1.970 tons, and the poles of foundation, the weight of 4.550 tons) and transport and installation of new complete platform OFQ for the lodgings. The manufacturing of the jacket will be carried out in the yard Saipem di Rumuolumeni, near Port Harcourt, in Nigeria. The activities to sea will be realized mainly by the means Saipem 3000 in various phases in the course of 2013.
Moreover, Saipem has adjudicated contracts, to execute itself in the fields Norwegian and British of the Sea of the North and in the Gulf of Mexico, that they preview mainly I use it of the naval means Saipem 7000 is for the transport and the installation of platforms and other marine infrastructures, it is for activity of decommissioning of already existing structures to sea. The activities will be carried out in the course of various phases that they will begin in the fourth trimester of this year and they will be extended until the end of 2014.
At last, Saipem has negotiates various increments of the scope of the job on various existing contracts Offshore E&C.
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