Execution of EPC sSubmarine Pipeline Projects in the Cantarell Field

摘要

Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is undertaking a major upgrade and exapnision of the Cantarell oil field in the Gulf of Mexico in order to increase crude oil production and exports, curtail gas flaring, and to improve the reliability of existing facilities. Pemex Explorationand Production (PEP) awarded Bechtel a contract initially for a field development planning study and later for overall program management in late 1996. A number of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts have been let to implement htese goals, including new platforms fir drilling, production, nitreogen injection, gas compression, and personnel accommodations. In addition, EPC contracts have been awarded for over fifty submarine pipekines. This paper reviews the overall contracting philosophy for this massive submarine pipeline undertaking, pulse it presents some interesting engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction issues that arose on three of those pipelines.