Oceaneering announces Shell Appomattox umbilical contract
HOUSTON -- Oceaneering International, Inc., has secured a contract from Shell Offshore to supply umbilicals for the deepwater Appomattox development located in the Mississippi Canyon area of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
The order is for electro-hydraulic steel tube control umbilicals, totaling approximately 60 km in length. Product manufacturing is planned to be performed at Oceaneering's umbilical facility in Panama City, Florida, and is expected to commence in the fourth quarter of 2015 and be completed in the third quarter of 2017.
This contract is another award by Shell to Oceaneering for a state-of-the-art umbilical under an Enterprise Frame Agreement, which was executed in November 2012.
