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- News - January 21, 2005
West of Shetland award
for Subsea 7
International underwater contractor, Subsea 7
today announced a contract award from BP for work
associated with the Schiehallion Infill and Foinaven
Water Injection pipelay projects, off the West
of Shetland. Contract value is placed in the region
of $12M.
Contract will begin immediately and is scheduled
to be complete by 3rd quarter of 2005.
Water depths for the project range from 395 to
455 metres and the scope of work for Schiehallion
and Foinaven includes the engineering, procurement,
transportation, installation and testing of both
a 10” NB production pipeline and a 10”
NB water injection pipeline, respectively.
Subsea 7’s pipelay vessel Skandi Navica
and a support vessel from the fleet will be utilised
for the work. This will make it the second time
in three years that the Skandi Navica has performed
work in the West of Shetland area, proving its
reliability in harsh weather environments.
Vice President for Subsea 7 UK, Bob Gifford,
commented: “Subsea 7 was recently awarded
work for BP in the West of Shetland and we believe
that this award shows both our commitment to the
North Sea and BP’s confidence in our subsea
capabilities. This award adds to our ever expanding
scope of services provided under the Federal Contract
we have with BP.”
Ends 21 January 2005
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For more information, contact:
Lyndsay Cruickshank on +44 1224 344606
Pat Stephen on +44 1224 344508 or +44 7712 427608
Notes to editors:
1. Subsea 7 is one of the world’s leading
subsea engineering contractors. The company has
offshore operations supported out of the UK, Norway,
Asia Pacific, Brazil, Gulf of Mexico, West Africa,
Middle East and the Caspian and employs 3000 world-wide.
Subsea 7 has a fleet of remotely operated vehicles
(ROVs), four pipeline construction yards and 14
modern, high specification dynamically positioned
ships capable of deepwater reeled and flexible
pipelay, deepwater subsea construction and saturation
diving. Website: www.subsea7.com
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