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TECHNIP, a leader in the fields of project
management, engineering and construction
for the oil and gas industry, offers a
comprehensive portfolio of solutions and
technologies.
The company has announced that it has
acquired the intellectual property rights
for the application of the small amplitude
helical tubing technology for steam
cracking furnaces from HeliSwirl.
Steam cracking is a petrochemical process
using steam to crack hydrocarbon molecules
to produce ethylene and propylene. The
technology was invented at Imperial College
London, and then transferred to HeliSwirl for
commercial development.
The acquisition broadens Technip’s
technological offering, and will reinforce
its position in the steam cracking furnace
market.
Technip has also reported that it has been
awarded a number of new contracts. The
first, awarded by BHP Billiton, is for the
fabrication, transportation and installation
of a flowline, and transportation and
installation of an umbilical, for the BHP
Billiton-operated Angostura gas project,
located offshore Trinidad and Tobago, in
approximately 30m (100ft) of water.
The second contract is for the K2 field
expansion project, operated by Anadarko
Petroleum Corporation in the Gulf of Mexico.
Two additional wells will be tied back to
the existing subsea equipment and to
the Marco Polo platform with production
flowlines. These wells are located in Green
Canyon Blocks 562 and 606, at a water
depth of approximately 1,200m (4,000ft).
Technip’s operating centre in Houston,
Texas will execute these two contracts.
The flowlines will be welded at the group’s
spoolbases in Evanton, Scotland (for the
BHP Billiton contract) and Mobile, Alabama
(for the Anadarko contract).
The third contract, awarded by Ningxia
Hanas Natural Gas Company Ltd, is a
lump sum contract for a mid-scale liquefied
natural gas (LNG) plant to be built in
Yinchuan, China. The contract covers the
engineering, supply of main equipment,
procurement and construction management
services for facilities for natural gas pre-
treatment, liquefaction, LNG storage and
loading, utilities, offsites, buildings and
other infrastructure.
This LNG plant will be the largest facility
of its kind in China, and will have two
LNG trains (units that transform natural
gas into liquefied natural gas by cooling it
to a temperature of -162°C), each with a
capacity of 400,000 tons per year, based
on an Air Products liquefaction process.
The LNG will be distributed to the Chinese
market to help meet the growing demand
for clean energy.
Technip’s operating centres in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia and Shanghai, China will
execute the contract, which is scheduled to
be completed in the second half of 2011.
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