Paris, October 10, 2008
听Technip has been awarded by E.ON Ruhrgas UK North Sea Ltd. a lumpsum contract, worth approximately 鈧�32 million, for the development of the Babbage gas field located in the United Kingdom Southern North Sea. Under this contract, Technip will install a subsea pipeline system to export gas from the new Babbage platform to existing subsea infrastructure located within the 鈥淲est Sole Bravo 500 meters zone鈥� at a water depth of 25 meters.
The contract covers:
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- project management, design, fabrication and installation of a 28 kilometer gas export rigid pipeline, a 40 ton manifold and three flexible tie-in jumpers(1),
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- installation of pipeline protection materials,
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- trenching(2) and backfilling of the gas export pipeline,
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- pre-commissioning, tie-ins and testing.
Technip鈥檚 operating center in Aberdeen, Scotland, will execute the contract. Welding of the gas export pipeline will be undertaken at the Group鈥檚 recently upgraded spoolbase in Evanton, Scotland. Offshore installation is scheduled to commence in the second quarter of 2009 using two vessels from Technip鈥檚 fleet, the Apache and the Orelia, and third party vessels.