Italian offshore engineering and construction company Saipem has secured a contract to provide supervision and subsea intervention services for GreenStream’s Libya-Italy Pipeline. The contract’s activities will be managed by Sonsub, Saipem’s centre of excellence for robotics, underwater technologies and services. The pipeline connects the Mellitah terminal in Libya to Gela in Italy.
This new agreement with GreenStream, a midstream company in the Mediterranean Sea, extends the two operators’ relationship, which has been ongoing since 2008. This encompassed asset integrity, inspection, maintenance and emergency services, and has broadened in scope to meet a wider range of customer needs.
The contract’s activities will be managed by Sonsub, Saipem’s centre of excellence for robotics, underwater technologies and services. It will be coordinated with the Saipem Engineering Hub in Fano, Italy.
Components of the Libya-Italy Pipeline Contract
The work includes integrated management of survey data, provision of critical spares, specialised engineering services related to asset integrity and readiness for repair interventions across various damage scenarios.
Specifically, repair interventions will utilise SiRCoS technology, a Sonsub-industrialised remotely operated repair system qualified for water depths up to 2,200m.
Saipem said: “With this award Saipem will contribute to managing the integrity of a fundamental underwater infrastructure for the Italian energy supply with an integrated approach, thus confirming the company’s leadership in the underwater domain with promptly available and efficient solutions.”
This contract also strengthens the long-standing cooperation between Saipem and GreenStream dating back to 2002, when Saipem was contracted for the pipeline’s installation.
Recently, Saipem secured two offshore contracts worth approximately $500m (€459.42m) in Saudi Arabia, including a 42in diameter, 50km crude trunk line for the Abu Safa field and production maintenance programmes for the Berri and Manifa Fields, under its long-term agreement with Saudi Aramco.
Other Contracts for Saipem
Saipem was also awarded awarded two offshore contracts, one in Guyana and the other in Brazil, worth approximately $USD 1.9 billion.
The first contract has been awarded by ExxonMobil’s subsidiary ExxonMobil Guyana Limited for the proposed Whiptail oilfield development located in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana, at a water depth of approximately 2,000 meters. Saipem’s scope of work includes the design, fabrication and installation of subsea structures, risers, flowlines, and umbilicals for a large subsea production facility.
Saipem will perform operations using its state-of-the art vessels FDS2, Constellation, and Castorone, and will deploy as key fabrication site for its execution model Saipem’s Guyana Offshore Construction Facility located at the Port of Georgetown, enhancing a sustainable steady growth in the country. Subject to the necessary government approvals, the project sanction by ExxonMobil Guyana Limited and its Stabroek block coventurers and an authorization to proceed with the final phase, the award will allow Saipem to begin some limited activities, namely detailed engineering, and procurement.
Additionally, the second contract was awarded by Equinor for the Raia project, the development of a pre-salt gas and condensate field in the Campos Basin, located about 200 km offshore the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
Saipem’s scope of work encompasses the offshore transport and installation of a subsea gas export line and associated equipment in water depths of around 2,900 meters, as well as the horizontal drilling activities for the shore approach. Saipem will deploy its state-of-the-art pipelaying vessel Castorone for the installation works.
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