Aker wins $250m subsea deal from Total

Subsea sign-up: Total pens two-year deal for Skandi Aker worth $250m

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Bill Lehane

 25 July 2012 15:25 GMT

Norway’s Aker Solutions has been awarded a $250 million contract from Total to provide subsea intervention services in Angola.

Total has signed up Aker Solutions and its purpose-built intervention vessel Skandi Aker for two years starting in the first quarter of next year, with options for three further one-year periods.

When it was introduced in 2010, the Skandi Aker was the first well service vessel of its kind capable of performing riser-based subsea well intervention in deep and ultra-deep waters, previously the preserve of drilling rigs on high day rates.

Well re-entry for testing operations or for interventions using wireline, coil tubing and well stimulations will be carried out by the Skandi Aker under the contract, as well…

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