By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Sept. 2 -- BBL Co. awarded ENI SPA's unit Saipem SPA, Milan, a 100 million euro contract to install 230 km of 36-in. natural gas pipeline across the North Sea from Callantsoog, Netherlands to Bacton, England, a short section of onshore pipeline at the Dutch entry point, and associated tie-ins and landfall work at Bacton.
Saipem's Castoro Sei pipelay vessel will install the pipeline between the second and third quarter 2006. BBL Co. is a joint venture of NV Nederlandse Gasunie 60%, Ruhrgas AG's unit E.ON Ruhrgas 20%, and a subsidiary of Belgium's Fluxys 20%.