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Saipem buys a ship from construction of rigid and flexible pipelines in deep waters
The "Lewek Constellation" will be acquired for 275 million dollars
March 23, 2018
Saipem will buy for 275 million dollars the DP3 Lewek Constellation, a ship from construction of rigid and flexible pipelines in deep waters and raising until 3.000 tons. Completed in 2013 from the Sofel Vietnamese, the Lewek Constellation currently takes part of the fleet of ghanese SRI EMAS.
"The Constellation - the managing director of Saipem has explained, Stefano Cao - is the new means arrived inside of the fleet of Saipem that will go to integrate and to complete our offer with ability to reeling in order answering in competitive and coherent way with our standards of safety to the requirements of the market of tie-back the submarines. In fact, in current the economic scene, the developments in this segment are becoming more and more important as they maximize I use it of existing infrastructures to reasonable costs. Saipem, that it participated only partially to this market, with the full Constellation this empty one widening the sphere of the future opportunities". "This purchase - it has added Cao - is part of our finalized strategy to increase the increase in the subsea segment and will ulteriorly contribute to upgrade the relations with our partner in the segment SURFING and SPS let alone with the main active customers in this market".
Saipem has specified that the Constellation will be able to operate in every geographic region, in particular in the Gulf of Mexico, the Sea of the North and the Sea of Norway, areas in which the characteristics of means they are particularly suitable to activity of tie-back submarines.
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Saipem will buy for 275 million dollars the DP3 Lewek Constellation, a ship from construction of rigid and flexible pipelines in deep waters and raising until 3.000 tons. Completed in 2013 from the Sofel Vietnamese, the Lewek Constellation currently takes part of the fleet of ghanese SRI EMAS.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
