To Saipem contracted Offshore E&C of the total value of 1,1 billion dollars



Saipem has adjudicated new Offshore contracts E&C in Brazil, Angola and the Sea Caspian, for a value of 1,1 billion dollars. In Brazil the Italian company has signed with Petrobras a contract of type EPIC for the projects Sapinhoá Norte and Cernambi Sul, in the within of the development of the Risers Pre-Sale in the basin of Santos, about 300 kilometers to wide of the coasts of the States of Rio de Janeiro and Saint Paolo, to a depth of water of 2.200 meters. Petrobras is operator of consortium BM-S-09 with BG and Repsol and of consortium BM-S-11 with Galp and Repsol. The scope of the job - Saipem has announced - comprises engineering, supplying, the manufacturing, the installation and the mass in service of a vertical collector submarine SLWR (Steel Lazy Wave Riser) for the system of collection near the field Sapinhoá Norte, and of collectors FSHR (Free Standing Hybrid Risers) for the systems of export of the gas near the fields of Sapinhoá Norte and Cernambi Sul. The activities to sea will be carried out by means highly specialized Saipem FDS 2, beginning from the third trimester of 2014. Saipem will currently under construction use own yard near Guarujá for the manufacturing of part of the structures of the system of collectors submarines.

In Angola Saipem a contract of type EPIC for the project GirRI (Girassol Resources Initiatives) in Blocco 17 has been adjudicated from Total E&P Angola, situated about 210 kilometers to the north-west of Luanda. The contract comprises engineering, supplying, the manufacturing, the installation and the mass in service of modifications to the systems of surge multiphase of the topside of the FPSO Girassol and Dalia. The activities to sea will be realized mainly by Saipem 3000 during fourth trimester 2014.

In the Russian field of the Sea Caspian Saipem society entirely controlled from Lukoil has been adjudicated from Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft () a contract for activity T&I in the Vladimir Filanovsky field.
The scope of the job comprises the transport and the installation of various infrastructures to sea that include a resistant fixed platform to the ice, a platform of lodging, a central platform of production and a platform for the collectors submarines, as well as of the connection bridges. The activities will be carried out in two temporal windows, between freedoms of expression and November of 2013 and 2014 respective, because of the freezing of the sea during the winter season.