By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Sept. 4 -- Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has awarded three contracts totaling $270 million to France's Technip for pipeline work in deepwater developments off Brazil.
The first contract covers engineering, procurement, installation, and commissioning of a rigid flowline that will connect Canapu oil and gas field in 1,700 m of water in the Espirito Santos basin to the Ciadade de Victoria floating production, storage, and offloading vessel anchored in 1,400 m of water. This 21-km flowline will be the first application of pipe-in-pipe (PIP) technology for subsea gas transportation in Brazil. Technip's Deep Blue deepwater pipelay vessel will install the flowline during fourth quarter 2008.
Intec Engineering earlier this year completed the front-end engineering design for the PIP flowline (OGJ Online, Apr. 4, 2007).
The second contract comprises engineering and procurement of 37 km of 4-in. and 6-in. flexible flowlines for Mexilhao gas field in the Santos basin. The reservoirs in Mexilhao have high pressures and temperatures. The 6-in. flowlines have been specially designed to cope with extreme temperature and pressure of the carried fluids.
The third contract includes engineering and procurement of four large-diameter flexible risers for the Campos basin oil outflow and treatment plan (PDET) that will be installed in 1,300 m of water in the Campos basin. The PDET export system is designed to increase oil production in Campos basin by as much as 630,000 b/d (OGJ Online, Oct. 20, 2005).
Technip's operations and engineering center in Rio de Janeiro will execute these contracts. The flexible pipes will be manufactured by Flexibras, one of the Group's flexible pipe plants in Vitoria, Brazil.
