United States: Subsea 7 secures contract in Gulf of Mexico.Byline: sanjayV03 Subsea Subsea is a general term frequently used to refer to equipment, technology, and methods employed to explore, drill, and develop oil and gas fields that exist below the ocean floors. This may be in "shallow" or "deepwater". 7 has announced the award of an engineering, construction and installation contract by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) is one of the world’s largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies, with 2.37 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) of proved reserves and a production of 190 million BOE in 2004. Ranked No. for development of the Caesar/Tonga complex in the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east . The work include the design, fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. and installation of two manifolds and two riser base pipeline end manifolds, transportation and installation of two flexible risers and fabrication and installation of 10 jumpers, two main umbilicals and associated flying leads. The flexible risers, umbilicals, valves and pipe will be free issued by Anadarko. Subsea 7 will also perform the pre-commissioning work scope for the pipeline and umbilical umbilical /um·bil·i·cal/ (um-bil´i-k'l) pertaining to the umbilicus. um·bil·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to the navel. 2. Relating to the umbilical region of the abdomen. systems. The engineering work will commence immediately in Houston. Installation will take place during the third and fourth quarters of 2010 using Subsea 7 pipelay and construction vessels. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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