A trio of contractor heavyweights are facing off in a bid to provide Total with a subsea tie-back solution to facilitate a second phase of development on the Lapa pre-salt development in Brazil’s Santos basin.
Italy's Saipem, UK-based TechnipFMC and Oslo-listed Subsea 7 are in contention for the job from Total.
The French supermajor, partnered by Shell and Repsol Sinopec, hopes to reach a final investment decision on Lapa's newest development phase in the second half, but is already staging a fully-priced design competition and expects to have the results in hand by the end of the year, Upstream understands.
