Hess Corporation has awarded Technip a contract for work on its Tubular Bells field, located in the Mississippi Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico at a water depth of about 4,500 feet.
The French company will work on 28 miles of flowlines, steel catenary risers, pipeline end terminations, piles and structures under the contract, which covers design, engineering, fabrication and subsea installation.
Technip will manage the project from its Houston operating centre, while the flowlines and risers will be welded at the Group’s spoolbase in Mobile, Alabama.
Offshore installation is scheduled to be completed with the Deep Blue, one of Technip’s deepwater pipelay vessel, during the first half of 2013.