TPi January 2013

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Technip awarded substantial UK North Sea contract

including the Skandi Arctic and the Wellservicer.

Welcoming Mr Farrell, managing director Alan Robinson said his experience is an excellent fit with Arc Energy’s existing business, and being able to fill a key position locally is a bonus. Arc Energy Resources recently made a major investment in two new rotating head welding machines, costing £500,000. This has increased productivity and extended the size and scope of work the company can handle, which now includes complicated component geometries for full or partial cladding, and fabrication of a wide range of component sizes weighing up to 15 tonnes. The company’s in-house designed cladding workstations feature state- of-the-art control systems developed to suit its customers’ specialised engineering requirements, and can clad bores up to 4m in diameter and areas of restricted access within bores as small as 20mm diameter. Arc Energy also offers in-house test weld, heat treatment, PMI and NDT facilities. installation of the mooring system to the production platform, and design and installation of a five-slot mid water arch. Technip’s operating centre in Aberdeen will execute the contract, which is scheduled to be completed in the second half of 2013. Genesis, Technip’s consultancy subsea and offshore engineering company, will complete the detailed design, and flexible flowlines will be manufactured at Technip’s flexible pipe plant in Le Trait, France. The company’s Evanton spoolbase, near Inverness, Scotland, will fabricate the linepipe, and DUCO, the group’s umbilical manufacturer in Newcastle, England, will provide the umbilicals. Vessels from the Technip fleet will be used for the offshore campaign,

Arc Energy Resources, a supplier of weld overlay cladding and high quality fabrications, has expanded its client support team with the appointment of Mark Farrell as a project manager. Mr Farrell, who has a degree in mechanical engineering, brings ten years’ project management experience in the offshore oil and gas industry, having worked for a manufacturer of pipeline components for subsea installations, and dealt with many of the major oil companies. He commented that he is looking forward to working with the Arc Energy project team and, as he lives 30 minutes from Arc Energy’s Gloucestershire factory, is particularly pleased that his experience is now helping to support a local business. He added that he was impressed with the emphasis Arc Energy places on company and staff development to ensure that its highly specialised welding techniques meet the requirements demanded by clients who manufacture a wide range of specialist oilfield equipment. Technip has been awarded by Ithaca Energy (UK) Ltd an engineering, procurement, installation and construction (EPIC) subsea contract for the Greater Stella Area (GSA) development, located 280km east- southeast of Aberdeen, Scotland, at a water depth of approximately 90m. Ithaca Energy is developing the GSA, centred on the Stella and Harrier fields, as a stand-alone development utilising its own floating production vessel. The contract covers detailed design and pipelay of a 33km 10" oil export and 63km 10" gas export pipeline to the production platform, and various subsea works to the Stella main drill centre and North drill centre, including installation of manifolds, tee structures, flexible pipelay and spoolpiece components,

Bill Morrice, managing director of Technip in the UK, commented, “Ithaca Energy (UK) is a new client for Technip and we are delighted to have been awarded this significant contract to help them develop the GSA. The UK North Sea is still an exciting place to be, with opportunities in all areas including inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) and West of Shetland markets. This particular award is evidence of the high level of activity around traditional developments and we look forward to supporting Ithaca Energy (UK) to bring the GSA hub onstream.”

Technip – France www.technip.com

New project manager for Arc Energy Resources

Industry certifications include ISO 9001:2008 quality management, ISO 3834-2 fusion welding of metallic materials, and the internationally renowned ASME U and R Stamps, as well as ISO 14001:2004 environment management, Investors in People and OHSAS 18001:2007 Health & Safety management system.

Arc Energy Resources – UK sales@arcenergy.co.uk www.arcenergy.co.uk

Mark Farrell

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