France's Technip to lay world's deepest gas pipeline in Gulf of Mexico
French firm Technip is to lay the world's deepest gas pipeline for energy giant Shell in the US Gulf of Mexico, a company statement announced Friday in its second big deap-sea pipelaying announcement in 10 days.
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The deal is "an important engineering, procurement and installation contract for the development of subsea infrastructure for the Stones field," at a depth of about 2,900 metres, Technip said.
The project will be the deepest floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit in the world and Shell's first in the Gulf of Mexico, it added, but it did not say how much the contract was worth.
On 12 August Technip announced that, along with Norwegian shipping group DOF, it has won contracts worth 1.35 billion euros involving the construction of the biggest pipe-laying ships of their type for Brazil.
Technip said that they had won eight contracts from Brazilian oil group Petrobras to lay flexible pipelines at great depth.
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