The company said that the project scope comprises the production of a deepwater marine drilling riser system, including tools and buoyancy modules, for the rig Alpha Star, which will be able to operate in water depths up to 2,700 meters in Brazil, Gulf of Mexico, west Africa and southeast Asia.
Delivery of the deepwater marine drilling riser system is scheduled for third quarter of 2010. The system will be manufactured at Aker Solutions’s facility in Rio das Ostras, Brazil.
The deepwater drilling risers manufactured in Rio das Ostras use the Clip Connector technology. The technology is exclusive to Aker Solutions and offers significant time savings when connecting the riser joints, thereby offering rig operators considerable reduction in costs from both reduced manpower and rig operations, the company said.
Marcelo Taulois, president of Aker Solutions’s subsea business area in Brazil, said: The Brazilian oil and gas industry will contract a large amount of drilling units in the next decade. With local manufacturing and our exclusive Clip Connector technology on offer, we are prepared to supply the drilling market needs with local content and with high-end riser technology.
