Technip has been awarded a lump sum contract by Enbridge Offshore Facilities (Enbridge) for the development of the Walker Ridge gas gathering system in the Gulf of Mexico, at a water depth of 7,000 feet (2,130 metres).
This award reinforces Technip’s leading position in the Gulf of Mexico ultra deep water market, according to a company statement. It covers the engineering, fabrication and installation of 160 miles (270 kilometres) of steel catenary risers – a pipe or assembly of pipes used to transfer produced fluids from the seabed to surface facilities – and pipelines as well as the installation of subsea equipments.
Technip’s operating centre in Houston, Texas will perform the overall project management. The export pipelines and risers will be welded at the group’s spoolbase located in Mobile, Alabama. Offshore installation is scheduled to be completed with the Deep Blue, Technip’s deepwater pipelay vessel, in 2013.
