Subsea 7 has won a contract from Aker BP pertaining to the Hod Field Development Project, located 12 km from the Valhall area in the southern North Sea.

The contract is in the range of $50 million and $150 million, said the UK-based subsea engineering company.

The re-development concept of the Hod Field includes a new wellhead platform, called Hod B, which will be tied back to the Valhall Field Centre with rigid pipelines and an umbilical.

Subsea 7 said that the scope of the Hod Field Development Project contract includes engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of pipelines, umbilicals, and tie-ins. The offshore contractor will be using key vessels from its modern fleet to execute the EPCI contract.

The company said that the production pipeline is a pipe-in-pipe design and will include what will be the world’s first application of mechanically lined pipe based on BUTTING’s GluBi technology.

According to Subsea 7, project management and engineering will immediately begin at its offices in Stavanger, Norway.

Fabrication of the pipelines will take be carried out at the company’s spoolbase at Vigra, Norway, and offshore operations will be executed in 2020 and 2021.

Monica Bjørkmann – Vice President for Subsea 7 Norway, commenting on the Hod Field Development Project contract, said: “Subsea 7 is very pleased with this award by Aker BP, through the Aker BP Subsea Alliance. It acknowledges Subsea 7 as a key partner in the delivery of pioneering technology, transforming the economics of field development. We look forward to continuing our alliance with Aker BP for the Hod Field Development, with safety, reliability and quality at the forefront throughout.”

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