Aker Solutions has won a contract to deliver longest-ever umbilicals system at the Zohr gas field offshore Egypt’s Mediterranean Sea
The agreement with Petrobel in Egypt is worth more than US$122.3mn and will be booked in Q2 2016. It stipulates the delivery of 180km of steel tube umbilicals that will connect the Zohr subsea development to an offshore control platform.
The umbilicals system will be delivered by mid-April 2017.
Petrobel, a joint venture between Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) and ENI, is responsible for the development and operations at Zohr.
“Aker Solutions is building on its previous experience offshore Egypt to now deliver its largest-ever umbilicals project,” said CEO Luis Araujo
“We are pleased to support Petrobel and Egypt on this important development,” he added.
The work will be led by Aker Solutions’ subsea division in Oslo and manufacturing will start immediately at the umbilicals plant in Moss, Norway. The plant has more than 20 years of experience in making the most advanced and complex umbilical systems, which are used to transport data, power and liquids between oil and gas installations on the seafloor and facilities onshore or onshore platforms.
