Baku. 7 August. REPORT.AZ/ GAS, member of Lighthouse Group, has been awarded a long-term contract from Saipem to provide offshore survey services on board the dive-support vessel Akademik Tofiq Ismayilov on BP-operated Shah Deniz field in the
Under the contract, GAS will provide services on board the vessel during the installation of the export and infield pipelines for the Stage 2 development of the Shah Deniz field which will ultimately deliver gas to Europe from Azerbaijan.
The field is located 90 km offshore Azerbaijan, in water depths between 75 m and 550 m.
According to GAS, the contract’s scope of work includes Touch Down Monitoring during the pipelay, As-Laid, As-Built and Out-of-Straightness surveys over 360 km of pipelines.
Shah Deniz has recently awarded two multi-million contracts in support of the development of future flanks following first gas in 2018.