Saipem will build the underwater section of the Adriatic pipeline TAP – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published April 14, 2016 at 13:44.
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Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP) has awarded Saipem Spa the contract engineering, supply, construction and installation (EPCI) of the offshore section of the project which involves the construction of a submarine pipeline of 36-inch (90 cm), which will cross the Adriatic Sea and Albania joining the coasts of southern Italy, with landings in Melendugno (Lecce). The undersea pipeline will have a length of about 105 km and reaches the maximum depth of about 820 meters below sea level.

The new contract would have a value of around 200 million euro. This evaluation according to sources familiar with the matter. In the specific case – Saipem precise – the contract provides for geophysical surveys of the seabed, the installation of a gas pipeline of 105 km of 36 “diameter, the supply and ‘installation of a fiber optic cable, the construction of the coastal landing in Albania and Italy (in San Foca in Puglia). For the installation work offshoreSaipem use the pipelay vessel Castoro Sei and the barge Castoro 10. The activities will begin in 2016.

The EPCI contract also extends to civil engineering works for the construction of the landing both in Albania and in Italy (including the micro-tunnel), the laying of the pipeline in the sea, installation of fiber cable sea optical and related preparatory activities, and surveys at sea. The 36-inch pipes, anodes and the will instead be provided by Tap stop devices of deformation propagation (buckle arrestors). “I wish to congratulate Saipem SpA – said Ian Bradshaw, Managing Director of Tap – for having awarded a task so important and at the same time to thank all the companies that participated in the race. While the construction of the offshore section poses specific challenges, the technical offer robustness of Saipem SpA, the solid resume that boasts in terms of security and the large specialist team experience that the company has fielded there reassuring that the work will be carried out to the highest standards and in compliance with the best industry practices. ”

“In the course of the year, – reads the statement – Tap has assigned several contracts: construction and upgrading of roads and bridges in Albania (April 2015), the contract for the supply of ball valves ( July 2015), the contract for the supply of turbochargers (Sept. 2015), contracts for design, manufacture and supply of joints, insulating joints and receiving units (October 2015), contracts for the supply of tubes and connections (October 2015 ), contracts for the supply of 495 km of pipes (November 2015), the contract for laying the gas pipeline and the construction of the receiving terminal in Italy (December 2015). “

last December Snam announced I have signed an exclusive agreement with Statoil to detect a 20% package that the Norwegian giant holds in Tap. The transaction value is 130 million euro. The group of Malacarne then take over from Statoil among the shareholders of the project, which includes in addition to the leader Azerbaijani Socar, even BP (20%), Belgium’s Fluxys (19%), Spain’s Enagas (16%) and Swiss Axpo (5%).

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