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42 MTR July 2006 FMC To Supply Subsea System for Chevron's Frade Project FMC Technologies was chosen by Chevron Frade LLC to supply subsea systems for its Frade project, offshore Brazil. The contract has a value of approx- imately $130 million in revenue to FMC Technologies. FMC Technologies' scope of supply for the Frade project includes 19 enhanced horizontal subsea trees (EHXT), wellheads, pipeline end manifolds with associated structures, production control systems and other related equipment. Deliveries will be completed from FMC Technologies' Rio de Janeiro facility. The Frade discovery is located in the North Campos Basin, approxi- mately 110 km off the Brazilian coast and 215 km North East of Macae at a water depth of approximately 1330 m (4000 ft.). Project Overview • Contract Award: 2006 Sales: Houston, Texas Fabrication: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil & Houston, Texas Service Base: Macaé, Brazil Host Type: FPSO Contract Type: Lump Sum Project Characteristics No. Trees: 19 Water Depth: 1,330 m (4,000 ft) Tree Type: EHXT with FMC Choke Module Tree Pressure 5,000 psi Tree Bore size: 5" Hydrocarbon: Oil Project Ownership Chevron 42.5% Nissho/ Inpex and Odebrecht 15% Petrobras 42.5% Rig Contract with Fred. Olsen Energy Hydro signed a letter of intent for a three-year contract with Fred. Olsen Energy ASA for a prolonged use of the drilling rig Bideford Dolphin from 2008 to 2011. Hydro is the operator of several new discoveries and subsea developments requiring rig capacity for drilling of production wells. This agreement allows Hydro to pursue an ambitious production drilling program on the Norwegian continental shelf in the coming years. The value of the contract for the peri- od 2008-2011 is $4 62.5m. Madagascar Drilling '07 ExxonMobil reportedly sees exploratory drilling operations off the northwest coast of Madagascar get- ting under way in 2007, Reuters reported. The oil giant has interests in four blocks along the Indian Ocean island's northwest coast. Exxon has a 50 percent stake in the Majunga block while 30 percent is owned by U.K. gas firm BG Group Plc and 20 percent by South Korea's top oil refiner SK Corp. MIROS Ship-based Radar Helps Manage Spills MIROS will supply five marine x-band radar-based oil spill detection systems to the common oil spill response organization for oil producers on the Norwegian continental shelf, called NOFO. With these systems, NOFO will be able to track and manage oil spills independent of sea, weather and light conditions. "This is the first product to combine radar tracking of oil spills with complete sea status data such as wave and current information, which will give oil companies, coastal authorities and oil spill response teams the ability to detect more rapidly and respond more effectively to a spill. Once a spill reaches the coastline, its costs increase exponentially. This product can significantly speed clean-up before that happens," said managing director Erik Sandsdalen of MIROS. NOFO is owned by all of the companies operating on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, including BP, Shell, Total E&P, ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco and Statoil, among others. According to NOFO's director of operations Jon Rødal, "Our owners have shown great interest in the ability to operate in conditions of darkness or low visibility." The oil spill detection system has been under development since 2000, and builds on the company's Wavex Marine Radar tech- nology. The oil spill detection system uses advanced image-processing algorithms and standard ship-based navigational radar to locate oil spills at a distance of up to four km, and track their movement at frequent intervals. "Preventing spills from hitting coastlines is a matter of great economic and political importance, and the oil community itself is leading the way on this issue," said Sandsdalen. He refers to Norway's Pollution Control Authority, which has already stipulated ship-based radar tracking as part of spill response, and expects many other countries to follow suit. The oil spill detection systems will be installed during 2006 on five of the 14 vessels NOFO uses in oil spill response. Rødal con- firms that NOFO will consider equipping all of its spill response vessels with similar equipment. Visit www.maritimeequipment.com/mt & Click No. 11 MTR#6 (33-48).qxd 7/11/2006 9:14 AM Page 42
