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Saipem adjudicates new Offshore contracts E&C for about 600 million dollars
Store clerks with Petrobras and PDVSA Petroleo
December 16, 2011
The Saipem Italian has adjudicated new Offshore contracts E&C in South America for a value of about 600 million dollars. In Brazil, Saipem has obtained from Petrobras a contract EPIC for the realization of the gas pipeline Lula OF - Cernambi, in the pegione Pre-Sale of Santos Basin, about 270 kilometers to the wide one of the coast of the State of Saint Paolo.
The development previews engineering, supplying, the manufacturing and the installation of a conduct gas of the diameter of 18 inches and the length of 19 kilometers, and relative submarine equipments, that it will be rested to a depth of the maximum water of 2.200 meters. The gas pipeline will connect the field of Cernambi to a central collector in the field of Lula.
The activities to sea will be realized, during the second half of 2013, mainly from the ship Saipem FDS 2 for the development of reservoirs in deep waters. The Italian society has specified that this is the third conduct that leaves some from the new FPSO situated in the area of Pre-Sale (after Guara and Lula), and third that Saipem will install using ship FDS 2. The technology of installation, and in specific the effective ability in J-Lay, returns particularly apt Saipem FDS 2 for it puts down of gas pipelines and conducts in ultra deep waters of the Pre-Sale reservoirs in Brazil.
Saipem has announced that this is the first project for which previews to use the new base to Guarujá for the logistics and storage of the pipes ( on 10 October 2011).
In Venezuela, moreover, Saipem has signed with PDVSA Petroleo KNOWS a contract T&I for the realization of the Dragon-CIGMA conduct, in the within of the Project "Delta Caribe Oriental". The contract previews the transport and the installation of a gas pipeline, the diameter of 36 inches and the length of about 110 kilometers, that it will connect the platform gas Dragon, situated to about 50 kilometers to wide of the coast the north-oriental of Venezuela, with Complex CIGMA, near Guiria inside of the Gulf of Pariah, in the State of the Sucre. The marine activities will be capacities to term mainly from means posatubi Beaver 7 and will be completed in the first trimester of 2013.
At last, Saipem has negotiates various variations of the scope of the job on existing contracts offshore in Nord and West Africa.
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