Technip has been awarded a lump sum contract for the development of subsea infrastructure for the Cardamom field located in the Gulf of Mexico, Garden Banks block 427. The field is located at a water depth of about 2,723 feet.
The project includes a subsea tie-back to the Auger tension leg platform, which is owned by Shell Offshore Inc.
Under the contract, Technip with provide project management, engineering, fabrication and installation of the East and West Loop 8-mile-long pipe-in-pipe flowlines with associated PLETs and steel catenary risers.
Technip’s operating center in Houston, Texas will perform the overall project management. The flowlines and risers will be welded at Technip’s spoolbase in Mobile, Alabama. The offshore installation is expected to be performed in mid-2013 by the Deep Blue, Technip’s deepwater pipelay vessel, and the Pioneer, recently added to the Technip fleet with the acquisition of Global Industries.
The contract follows the delivery to Shell of the umbilical systems for the Perdido development, which are the deepest installed umbilicals in the world, at a water depth of approximately 9680 feet.