Norwegian Firm Wins Transmed Job

Norwegian contractor DOF Subsea said June 27 it has been awarded a contract by the Transmediterranean Pipeline Company (Transmed) to undertake the pipeline inspection on its pipeline system in 3Q 2017. The value of the contract was not disclosed.

The scope of the contract involves inspection of five submarine pipelines between the Cap Bon compression station in Tunisia and the Italian gas grid entry point at Mazara del Vallo in Sicily. DOF Subsea will deploy the survey vessel Geosund to complete the inspection work scope and pipeline intervention. It successfully completed a similar scope for Transmed in 2014.

Transmed entered into operation in 1983, is 50-50% owned by Italy's Eni and Algerian state Sonatrach, and transports Algerian gas for Italy and Slovenia.

Transmed maximum capacity was 36.4bn m³/yr (1,072 GWh/d), according to latest 2015-16 data from Gas Infrastructure Europe. 

DOF Subsea separately said it had also been awarded a subsea oil field support project offshore Newfoundland for a Canadian operator.  

Mark Smedley