Houston-based Helix Vitality Options Group, Inc. has secured new three-year vessel constitution and repair contracts with Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) for the riser-based properly intervention vessels Siem Helix 1 and Siem Helix 2 working offshore Brazil.
The brand new three-year contracts are valued in combination at an estimated $786 million, in accordance with Petrobras’ estimated worth, Helix mentioned in a information launch.
The Siem Helix 1 and Siem Helix 2 are purpose-built, superior properly intervention vessels able to performing a variety of subsea providers together with manufacturing enhancement, properly decommissioning, subsea set up, offshore crane and Remotely Operated Car operations, offshore development, and emergency response, Helix acknowledged.
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Every contract contains a further three years of choices. The contracts had been entered into following a aggressive tender course of, Helix famous.
Daniel Stuart, Helix Vice President for Industrial, mentioned, “We’ve constructed a protracted and productive working relationship with Petrobras for the final seven years. Throughout this time, we’ve got persistently delivered protected and cost-effective properly intervention providers to the Brazilian market. These new three-year contracts underscore Helix’s dedication to innovation, tailor-made options, and leveraging our in depth world properly intervention experience. These contracts reaffirm our Vitality Transition enterprise mannequin, empowering purchasers to optimize manufacturing from their current belongings”.
Siem Helix 2 has been performing riser-based properly intervention actions for Petrobras within the Santos and Campos Basins since 2017, and to this point has accomplished greater than 100 properly interventions. Siem Helix 1 beforehand labored for Petrobras from April 2017 to July 2021, finishing 74 properly interventions within the Santos and Campos Basins, in response to the discharge.
In February, Helix secured a deepwater properly intervention contract award from Esso Exploration and Manufacturing Nigeria (Deepwater) Ltd. The venture, positioned offshore Nigeria within the Erha and Usan fields, is predicted to start in September with the vessel anticipated to be in Nigeria till 2025, Helix mentioned in an earlier information launch. The fields are positioned roughly 60.3 miles (97 kilometers) offshore Nigeria in water depths starting from 2297 to 4921 toes (700 to 1,500 meters).
Beneath the contract, Helix will present the Q4000, a DP3 riser-based semi-submersible properly intervention vessel, a 10k Intervention Riser System (IRS), remotely operated automobiles, venture administration, and engineering providers to cowl absolutely built-in properly intervention providers from manufacturing enhancement to plug and abandonment, the corporate mentioned.
In keeping with Helix, the Q4000 “gives a world-class offshore platform for a various array of duties equivalent to subsea properly intervention, area and properly decommissioning, subsea gear set up and restoration, properly testing, and emergency properly containment with devoted service areas to extend security and vessel effectivity”.
Helix Vitality Options describes itself as a world offshore vitality providers firm that gives specialty providers to the offshore vitality business, with a concentrate on properly intervention, robotics and full area decommissioning operations.
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