Pipe-laying vessels for Brazil

A series of two new flexible pipe-laying vessels (PLVs) for advanced operations is currently being built at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in South Korea.

Illustration of the pipe laying vessels

The 145.6m-long and 30m-wide vessels, which have a high pipe lay tension capacity of 550 tonnes, are designed to achieve optimal fuel consumption in the design conditions, and to meet the need for efficient flexible pipe-laying operations. They will be utilised mainly to install umbilical and flexible flow lines and risers to connect sub-sea wells to floating production units in waters more than 2,500m deep. The owner and operator of the vessels is a joint venture  between France-based energy industry company Technip and the Brazilian oil and gas industry company Odebrecht Óleo & Gás (OOG). The vessels will work on a long-term charter in Brazilian waters for Petrobras.