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French company Technip wins contracts on Ghana’s Jubilee oil field

Oil RigParis-based oil technology company, Technip has won two contracts for the development of Ghana’s largest oil field, the Jubilee oil field.

In a press release announcing the deals Thursday October 22, 2009, Technip said it has been awarded two lump sum contracts for the development of the Jubilee oil field by Tullow Oil Ghana.

The first contract it says, comprises the engineering and fabrication of seven 10-inch diameter and two 8-inch diameter risers for a total length of more than 27 kilometers.

Engineering for this contract according to Technip, will be carried out by its operating center in Paris, France. The risers will be fabricated in Le Trait, France, in one of Technip’s flexible pipe production facilities and delivery is scheduled for the beginning of 2010.

The second contract Technip says covers, engineering, fabrication and installation of approximately 48 kilometers of production and gas and water injection rigid flowlines; installation of 26 kilometers of umbilicals, nine flexible risers (supplied by Technip under the first contract) and subsea manifold and riser base structures; connection of the flowlines to the wellheads and subsea manifolds and test of the entire system.

Technip’s operating center in Houston, Texas, according to the release will execute this contract with support from the company’s Paris center for the installation of the flexible flowlines, the connections and offshore operations. The offshore campaign is scheduled to commence in early 2010 using two vessels from the Technip fleet, the Deep Blue and the Deep Pioneer, which will lay the rigid and flexible flowlines respectively, assisted by third-party vessels.

Tullow Oil is the largest stakeholder in Ghana’s Jubilee oil field, said to be the largest to be discovered in West Africa in the last 10 to 15 years.

According to Tullow the field holds about 1.8 billion barrels of oil and has 17 wells.

Commercial production of oil in the field is expected to begin in June 2010.

Technip says on its website it is a world leader in engineering, technologies and project management for the oil and gas industry.

It also says it is backed by more than 50 years of experience.

By Emmanuel K. Dogbevi

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