Aker Solutions will lay the longest in the history of the ombilichesky pipeline

the Norwegian Aker Solutions secured order on laying of the longest in the history of the ombilichesky pipeline. Companies should be laid on a seabed of 250 kilometers of a pipe which will connect an underwater extracting complex to a basic platform.

the Ombilichesky pipeline is a special transport system for connection of underwater wells with coastal terminals or shelf platforms. Its feature that in one pipe unites oil or the gas pipeline, a power cable for power supply the extracting unit and a fiber-optical cable for data transmission.

"We are very glad to

that had an opportunity to work over such large project which is innovative both from the point of view of the size, and from the point of view of technologies", – Araukho Louis, director general declared Aker Solutions.

Cost contracts make 1,6 billion Norwegian kroner. Design of Aker Solutions system will carry out at the head office in Oslo, and pipes the plant of companies in Moss will be engaged in production. Completion of laying is planned for the end of 2018. It is remarkable that the company customer, a project location in Aker Solutions did not want to call.

Meanwhile, it any more for the first time when Aker Solutions secures order on the superlong ombilichesky pipeline, notes Offshore Energy Today . In June, 2016 company signed contract on laying of such system for a gas field Zukhr in the Egyptian part of the Mediterranean Sea.

the Agreement with company Petrobel brought to Aker more than billion Norwegian kroner (122,2 million dollars). Under contract, the Norwegian service contractor has to lay 160 kilometers of the ombilichesky pipeline from the underwater extracting unit to a basic offshore platform. : ///