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News Release from: Prysmian Cables and Systems | Subject: Steel tube umbilicals
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 28 March 2008
Steel tube umbilicals carry hydraulics
and power
Project requires electrohydraulic umbilicals, in eight different configurations to be installed in nine fields along the Brazilian coast.
Prysmian Cables and Systems has been awarded a US $18 million contract by Brazilian company Petrobras for 35km of static and dynamic steel tube umbilicals to be installed in a number of fields in the Santos, Campos and Espirito Santo Basins, located offshore to the Brazilian coastline Umbilicals are multifunctional tubing systems that enable subsea wellheads and manifolds to be connected to platforms or FPSOs (floating production storage and offloading vessels)
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 10 Jun 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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These umbilicals will form part of the Brazilian State sponsored Plangas initiative whereby the Brazilian state controlled company, Petrobras, intends to significantly increase its national daily gas production.
The first step of this major project consists of the acceleration and expansion of gas fields already in operational or developmental phases and corresponds to 40% of the additional gas volume forecasted for 2008.
The project requires electrohydraulic umbilicals, in eight different configurations to be installed in nine fields along the Brazilian coast.
The umbilicals each consist of nine 690bar hydraulic lines, three 690bar injection lines and four pairs of electrical control cables.
This contract will also mark one of the first dynamic production super duplex stainless steel tube umbilicals to be installed by Petrobras in Brazil, which historically has used thermoplastic hoses.
Ranging in water depths of up to 2000m, the umbilicals will be delivered on a fast track basis during 2008, following full qualification testing with the first delivery in mid-2008.
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