Subsea 7 Opens new pipeline spoolbase

The investment in the spoolbase, in excess of $30 million, as Subsea 7 states, allows the company to expand its presence and capabilities in the North America and Mexico regions and provide customers with a leading edge world-class solution to serve the increasing deepwater pipeline and steel catenary risers (SCR) market.  

The state-of-the-art spoolbase covers an area of appr. 23,5 ha.  The spoolbase will fabricate and store oil and gas pipelines of up to 20" diameter (16" steel plus 2" insulation coatings) in lengths of up to 1.2km for spooling onto reeled pipelay vessels.

The facility will be equipped to weld any steel line pipe material from traditional carbon steel to duplex and clad pipe.  In addition, the base will be able to complete the fabrication of plastic-lined pipelines, pipe-in-pipe systems and SCRs.  When in full production the base will be able to hold approximately 18,000 tonnes of pipe stalks.  

The base employs up to 100 people when working at normal capacity.