French energy engineering firm Technip said today it had won a £28.6million contract to carry out subsea work on the North Sea Causeway field.
Technip’s operating centre in Aberdeen will lead the contract, which was awarded by Valiant Causeway and covers engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of pipelines and subsea equipment. manufactured under a separate deal.
Rigid pipelines will be welded at Technip’s spoolbase at Evanton, in Ross-shire, while the flexible pipelines will be manufactured at Le Trait, France.
Technip vessels to be used on the project include Apache II, Normand Pioneer and Wellservicer.
The Causeway field is about 279 miles north-east of Aberdeen at a water depth of nearly 500 feet.
First oil from the field, which is estimated to have reserves of 6.6million barrels, is expected in mid-2012.