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Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Aker Solutions will be delivering the umbilicals system for ENI’s Zohr gas field development offshore Egypt in the Mediterranean. The contract has it delivering its longest-ever umbilicals system.
The contract comes from Petrobel and is worth more than NOK 1 billion and will be booked for Q2.
Aker Solutions with deliver 180 km of steel tube umbilicals that will connect the Zohr subsea development to an offshore control platform. Petrobel, a JV between 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 Luis Araujo, chief executive officer of Aker Solutions. “We are very pleased to support Petrobel and Egypt on this important development.”
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 umbilicals system will be delivered by mid-April 2017.
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