Chevron Corp. has let a master contract agreement to Aker Solutions to provide umbilicals for Chevron-operated oil and gas fields in the US Gulf of Mexico. The scope of the agreement includes delivery of engineering, design and manufacturing of dynamic and static control umbilicals, dynamic and static power umbilicals, and service and installation support.
Chevron’s Anchor project will be the first work order under the new agreement, which calls for 24 km (15 miles) of 20,000 psi dynamic steel tube and power umbilicals and distribution equipment. The deepwater field lies 225 km (140 miles) offshore Louisiana at a water depth of 1,524 m (5,000 ft).
Aker Solutions' facility in Mobile, Ala. will perform the engineering, design, and manufacturing of the umbilicals.
The contract will be booked as order intake in the first quarter of 2020.
