The awards are fro work in the Pierce field, operated by Shell, the Stirling field, operated by ENI, and the Rhum field, operated by BP. The Shell Pierce project award involves the engineering, procurement, installation, and commissioning (EPIC) of a dynamic water-injection riser, water-injection riser base, two water-injection flowlines, and two water-injection manifolds. Co-venturers with Shell in this project are Nippon Oil Exploration Ltd and Oranje-Nassau (UK) Ltd. The ENI Stirling project involves the design, manufacture, and installation of two flexible flowlines, installation of a free-issue control umbilical, and the design, fabrication, and installation of a wellhead protection structure; Technip is also responsible for all associated tie-ins, pre-commissioning, and testing. The BP Rhum project is a further EPIC contract that involves the tie-back of new wells to an FPSO, including the installation of four steel-tubed umbilicals, three infield 14-in/8-in pipe-in-pipe pipelines with a 2-in piggy back pipeline, and a 180-t manifold. Fabrication of the flexible flowlines required for the Pierce and Stirling projects will be undertaken by Flexi France, Technip’s French manufacturing facility at Le Trait. Offshore operations for the three projects will be undertaken by several vessels of the group’s fleet and will commence on the Stirling and Pierce projects in the first half of this year. The Rhum contract is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2005. The company, in association with Subsea 7, has also been awarded a contract by Statoil in the subsea portion of the new Asgard Q satellite development in the Norwegian sector of the NSea. The contract, valued at approximately £7 million, includes fabrication and installation of two 10-in 13% chromium infield flowlines, each 13.5km long. The project engineering will be performed both at Technip’s offices in Stabekk as well as Subsea 7’s offices in Stavanger. The flowlines will be fabricated at Technip’s welding base in Orkanger, and installed by Subsea 7’s installation vessel Skandi Navica during the second half of the year.