FMC Technologies has secured the $210million contract with Total for the manufacture and supply of subsea production equipment for the Laggan-Tormore subsea development West of Shetland.
A significant part of the manufacturing will take place at the company’s plant in Scotland.
Indeed, David Currie, MD of FMC Technologies UK signalled that the contract was very important.
He said: “We look forward to working with Total on this exciting new development and welcome the opportunity to build on our existing relationship with a valued customer.
FMC’s scope of supply includes the manufacture of nine subsea trees, eight wellheads and two six-slot manifolds. It will also provide 12 multiphase meters, 10 subsea control modules and associated control systems.
The company says the equipment is to be manufactured and assembled at FMC’s facilities in Dunfermline, Fife, and Kongsberg, Norway, and at its Multi Phase Meters business unit in Stavanger.
Deliveries are scheduled to commence in the first quarter of 2011.
This is not the only fresh win for FMC as the company will also supply equipment to a Shell project in the US Gulf of Mexico.
The contract for subsea and topside systems is linked to the Perdido Stage II Regional Development Project in the US Gulf of Mexico’s Alaminos Canyon block 857.
FMC has not disclosed the value of the package, which includes five subsea production trees and three subsea water-injection trees each rated at 10,000psi.
It will also manufacture and provide subsea and topside controls, manifold and tie-in equipment, and other systems and services. Deliveries will start Q3 this year.
FMC has supported Shell’s Perdido project with equipment and services since 2007.
In December 2008, its global standard, enhanced vertical deepwater tree system set the current subsea deepwater completion record of 2,851m (9,356ft) in the US Gulf.
The Perdido development will eventually ramp up to an annual peak production of more than 100,000 barrels oil equivalent per day, by which time 80% of total estimated production will come from the Great White field.