Offshore services firm TechnipFMC has been awarded a large engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract by Petrobras, on behalf of the Libra Consortium for the Mero 1 pre-salt field in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil.
The work scope includes engineering, procurement, construction of all rigid lines, as well as the installation and pre-commissioning of all the infield riser and flowline system for interconnecting 13 wells to the FPSO. It also includes the installation of rigid pipelines, flexible risers and flowlines, steel tube umbilicals and other required subsea equipment.
TechnipFMC says the contract is valued at somewhere between $500m and $1bn.
