Petrobras lets contract for umbilicals

Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has let contracts to Oceaneering Multiflex, a division of Oceaneering International Inc., Houston, to supply 178 km total of umbilicals for Marlin East, Roncador Phase 2, Manati, and Golfinho fields off Brazil.

Sept. 9, 2005

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Sept. 9 -- Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has let contracts to Oceaneering Multiflex, a division of Oceaneering International Inc., Houston, to supply 178 km total of umbilicals for Marlin East, Roncador Phase 2, Manati, and Golfinho fields off Brazil.

The contracts are worth $42 million total. The high collapse-resistant (HCR) hoses developed by Petrobras and Oceaneering have a steel carcass and allow for chemical injection using low specific-gravity chemicals.

Oceaneering's manufacturing plant in Niteroi, Brazil, will produce the umbilicals.