Technip was awarded a major contract by Petrobras for the supply of flexible pipes for the Iracema Sul (former Cernambi Sul) field, located in the Santos Basin pre-salt area in Brazil, at a water depth of up to 2,500m.
The contract covers the qualification and supply of up to 250km of flexible pipes for oil production, gas lift and water and gas injection, as well as related equipment for the pre-salt area to be installed on the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit Cidade de Mangaratiba. The high-technology flexible pipes are designed to meet Petrobras’ requested service life. Gas injection pipes are designed for high internal pressure, using the Teta profile developed by Technip’s R&D team in its Flexi France plant in Le Trait, France.
Technip’s operating centre in Rio de Janeiro will perform the engineering and project management. The flexible pipes will mainly be fabricated at Technip’s manufacturing plant in Vitória, with some specifications also being produced at the new manufacturing plant at Açu, Brazil. The first delivery is scheduled for the first half of 2014.
Mr Frédéric Delormel, Technip’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Subsea, stated, “Technip is honoured to participate in such an important and challenging development for Petrobras and for Brazil. Thanks to the collaboration of our R&D teams, notably in Brazil and France, we are at the forefront of frontier projects. This contract confirms the suitability of flexible pipes for high-pressure and corrosive fluids requirements found in ultra deepwater pre-salt conditions.”