WEATHERFORD’S pipeline and speciality services group has been awarded a contract by Saipem for pre-commissioning services on the Urugua-Mexilhao pipeline in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The company says the 18in, 174km long gas pipeline will link the floating production, storage and offloading vessel, Cidade de Santos – located on block BS-500 on the Urugua field in 1,372m water depth – to the existing Mexilhao gas platform.
Mexilhao is Brazil’s biggest fixed gas platform and is capable of producing up to 529.7million cu ft per day of gas.
Weatherford’s scope of work includes filling, testing, dewatering, conditioning and geometry inspection of the pipeline, along with onshore preparation operations.