Technip-Coflexip has been awarded by Pioneer Natural Resources USA Inc. and Mariner Energy Inc., an EPCI contract, valued in excess of USD 35 million, for the design, procurement, commissioning and installation of a pipeline system comprising 32 miles of 10″ rigid pipe and hydraulic control umbilical between two subsea wells and the new Falcon’s Nest Platform, in the Gulf of Mexico. The Falcon field is located in East Breaks Blocks 573 and 623, in water depths of 389 – 3,475 feet (120–1060 metres). The umbilicals will be fabricated by Technip-Coflexip at its DUCO manufacturing plant in Houston, Installation of the rigid pipe and the umbilicals will be completed by the CSO Deep Blue, the Group’s new ultra deepwater pipelay and construction vessel in the fourth quarter of 2002.
