Saipem adjudicates Offshore contracts E&C for 1,8 billion dollars



Saipem has adjudicated new Offshore contracts E&C for 1,8 billion dollars to come true with means posatubi of new Castorone construction.

In Australia the Italian company has signed a contract EPCI with INPEX for the conduct of gas export of the Ichthys project LNG. The scope of the job of Saipem previews engineering, supplying, the construction and the installation of long a submarine conduct 889 kilometers, of the diameter of 42 inches, in depth until 275 meters, that it will connect the Central Processing offshore Facility with the treatment system to earth, near Darwin. The activities to sea will be carried out by the Castorone means in the course of 2014. The means posatubi Semac 1, recently modernized, will be used for put down it in soundings.

The Ichthys project LNG is joint venture between INPEX (76%, the operator) and Total (24%). The gas extracted from the Ichthys reservoir, in the Browse Basin, about 200 kilometers to the wide one of the coasts of the Australia Western, will endure a preliminary treatment for the removal of the water and the extraction of the condensed ones directly near the structures to sea. The gas then will be transported until the system of treatment to earth, near Darwin, through a submarine conduct of the length of 889 kilometers. The Ichthys project will per year produce 8,4 million to tons of liquified natural gas and 1,6 million tons of gas of liquified oil, besides about 100.000 condensed barrels of to the day in the phase of peak.

Moreover, in the Gulf of Mexico, Saipem has adjudicated a contract T&I for the realization of a gas export pipeline in the American field of the Gulf, about 400 kilometers to south of New Orleans. The development previews the transport and the installation of a conduct for the gas export of the diameter of 36 inches and the length of about 350 kilometers, in deep waters from 100 to 2.100 meters. The activities to sea will be executed mainly by the means posatubi Castorone during the second half of 2013.

The Castorone, planned for puts down it of conducts of wide diameter, is currently under construction near the yard Keppel Shipyard of Singapore and, besides contracts announced today from Saipem, it will be employed for the execution of the Walker Ridge Export Pipeline project, in the American field of the Gulf of Mexico.