Offshore engineering and services player Subsea 7 has struck a deal with Woodside Energy for work on the Trion field development in Mexican waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Under the contract, worth between $350m and $500m, the Oslo-listed company will provide subsea installation services on the deepwater development in the Perdido Fold Belt with water depths ranging up to 2,600 m.
Subsea 7’s work scope on the project covers engineering, construction, and installation of the subsea umbilicals, risers, and flowlines, as well as the associated subsea architecture. Project management and engineering will be carried out by the company’s offices in the US and Mexico. Offshore work should take place between 2026 and 2027.
Trion is the first deepwater development in Mexico and sits some 30 km south of the US-Mexico border and 180 km away from the Mexican coastline. The project, which Woodside and Pemex are developing in partnership, involves a wet tree subsea system connected to an infield floating production unit (FPU), with the first oil targeted for 2028. South Korea’s HD Hyundai Heavy Industries will build the FPU, and subsea giant TechnipFMC is in charge of manufacturing flexible pipes.
