Oceaneering services for Shell in GoM

HOUSTON - Oceaneering International Inc. of Houston announced May 16 it has been awarded a contract to provide services and products to support the design, fabrication and installation of ancillary flow-line hardware for the Appomattox development in the Mississippi Canyon Area of the Gulf of Mexico for Shell Offshore. The work is to include procurement and installation of pre-lay and post-lay crossing mattresses, flow-line jumper fabrication and installation, manifold installation, as well as the design, procurement, fabrication and installation of subsea buoyancy for flowline thermal expansion. Oceaneering's U.S. flagged vessel Ocean Evolution is scheduled for delivery in late 2017. It is expected to be used to perform the offshore installation services in various phases that are to end in 2019. Oceaneering is a global engineering services and products business, primarily to the offshore oil and gas industry, with a focus on deep-water applications. Oceaneering also serves the defense, entertainment and aerospace industries. (Source: PR News Wire 05/16/17) Gulf Coast Note: Oceanengineering is HQ’d in Houston with operations in Panama City, Fla.; Bayou Vista, Houma, Lafayette, Morgan City, New Iberia and New Orleans, all in Louisiana.