Procurement, engineering and project management will commence immediately with offshore installation of the bundle scheduled for early 2011.
The company said that a pipeline bundle product integrates the required flow lines, water injection, gas lift and control systems necessary for a subsea development and assembles them within a steel carrier pipe. At each end of the pipeline, the structures, manifolds, incorporating equipment and valves, designed specifically to the requirements of the field, are attached.
The fully tested system is then launched and transported to the location using the controlled depth tow method. Once installed, no trenching or rock dumping is required.
