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Technip awarded umbilical contract in the UK North Sea

Technip announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary Duco Ltd. has been
awarded by BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd a contract, worth
approximately €14 million, for the Andrew field development. This field is
located 230 kilometers north east of Aberdeen, in the United Kingdom North
Sea, at a water depth of 100-120 meters.

The contract covers engineering, project management services and
fabrication of a 215-meter static riser umbilical* and a 29-kilometer
static seabed umbilical. The umbilicals include over 600 kilometers of
thermoplastic hoses and over 160 kilometers of electrical cables. In
addition, the riser umbilical includes optical fibre cables.

The umbilical systems and thermoplastic hoses will be manufactured by Duco
in its facility in Newcastle, United Kingdom. The project is scheduled for
delivery in 2011.

The award follows Duco’s proven track record in the supply of umbilical
systems to BP worldwide and recently with the delivery of umbilicals for
BP’s Skarv development in Norway.

* Umbilical: an assembly of hydraulic hoses which can also include
electrical cables or optic fibres used to control subsea structures from a
platform or a vessel.