Technip has been awarded a contract by BG Trinidad and Tobago for the flow lines, risers and umbilicals for the North Coast Marine Area Development offshore Trinidad. The contract includes engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation, and pre commissioning of the insulated riser, flowline and umbilical systems that will connect the Eastern Hibiscus and the Chaconia subsea wells to the Hibiscus Platform. The location is twenty five miles northwest of Trinidad in NCMA Block 01 East Hibiscus and Chaconia reservoirs in 500 feet of water.

The detailed design engineering will be performed by Technip's operations and engineering center in Houston. The high pressure flexible risers will be manufactured by Flexi France one of the Group's flexible pipe plants located in Le Trait IN France while the hydraulic control umbilicals will be manufactured by Technip's UK subsidiary Duco and fabrication of the rigid flowline will take place at Technip's spoolbase in Evanton in UK. The offshore installation phase will use two vessels from Technip's fleet: the Apache will lay the flowlines while the Wellservicer will install the flexible risers and umbilicals and offer diving and ROV support for the completion of the work.

Flowline is the pipe laid on the seabed for the transportation of production or injection fluids linking a sub sea structure like wellhead, template, manifold or riser base to another structure or to a production facility. Flexible riser is a vertical flexible pipeline linking flowlines to surface structures. Umbilical is an assembly of hydraulic hoses which can also include electrical cables or optic fibers, used to control a sub sea structure or ROV from a platform or a vessel.

Technip ranks among the top five corporations in the field of oil, gas and petrochemical engineering, construction and services. Headquartered in Paris, the Group is listed in New York and Paris. The Group's main operations and engineering centers and business units are located in France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, the USA, Brazil, Abu-Dhabi, China, India, Malaysia and Australia. In support of its activities, the Group manufactures flexible pipes and umbilicals, and builds offshore platforms in its manufacturing plants and fabrication yards in France, Brazil, UK, USA, Finland and Angola.