ConocoPhillips awards EPC contract to Aker Solutions

Published: 18-Mar-2010

Aker Solutions has received an EPC contract from ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS, Norway, for platform jacket and a bridge support jacket for the new Ekofisk accommodation platform.

The contract will be executed by the Aker Solutions yard in Verdal, and includes engineering, procurement, construction, load-out and sea-fastening of the steel jacket, bridge support jacket and associated piles.

The detail engineering starts immediately, while fabrication in Verdal will commence in November 2010. The jacket and the bridge support jacket will be delivered in the spring of 2012, and will then become number 36 and 37 in the series of jackets delivered by Aker Verdal.

Aker Solutions ASA, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a provider of engineering and construction services, technology products and integrated solutions. Aker Solutions' business serves several industries, including oil & gas, refining & chemicals, mining & metals and power generation. The Aker Solutions group is organized in a number of separate legal entities. Aker Solutions is used as the common brand/trademark for most of these entities.

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