Technip wins engineering for Lucius deepwater project in US Gulf
Technip was awarded a lump sum contract by Anadarko Petroleum for the engineering, construction and transport of a 23,000 ton truss Spar hull for their Lucius deepwater project in US Gulf of Mexico.
First oil production is scheduled in 2014.
Lucius will be the seventh Spar Technip has delivered to Anadarko, the company said.
The Lucius truss Spar floating production facility will have a nameplate capacity of 80,000 bpd of oil and 450 million cubic feet/day of natural gas.
Technip’s operating center in Houston will provide the overall project management. The detailed hull design and fabrication will be carried out by Technip’s yard in Pori, Finland.
This Spar will be the15th delivered by Technip (out of 18 worldwide), demonstrating Technip's leadership in Spars and the company’s ability to provide solutions for ultra-deep water developments, it said.
The Lucius production unit will be jointly owned by Anadarko (35%), Plains E&P (23.3%) ExxonMobil (15%) Apache (11.7%), Petrobras (9.6%) and Eni (5.4%).
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