Contractors in battle for new subsea pipe order

By NISHANT UGAL New Delhi

 21 June 2012 22:59 GMT

INDIA’S state-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has launched an integrated tender for the design, engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation of more than 160 kilometres of subsea pipelines and the modification of 15 offshore platforms for the C-series marginal fields and Heera redevelopment phase two projects.

The workscope of the first section involves the laying of 14 segments of liquids and gas lift rigid subsea pipelines totalling 137.5 kilometres.

Ten pipeline segments are required for the Heera field and four segments are for the C-series fields, both off India’s west coast.

The second part of the integrated tender comprises seven flexible water injection subsea pipelines totalling 23.25 kilometres for the Heera field.

Domestic contractors Punj Lloyd and Larsen & Toubro, Middle-east player Valentine Maritime, Australia’s Leighton, South Korean giant Hyundai Heavy Industries and Singapore-based Swiber are most likely to compete…

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