CSO Aker Engineering, Inc. has been awarded a five-year contract covering Subsea System Integration and Design Engineering for BP's Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Developments Program.
The BP GoM Deepwater projects contract is CSO Aker Engineering, Inc.'s largest single design engineering contract to-date and is expected to utilize approximately 25 percent of its engineering and project management resources.
In anticipation of the award, CSO Aker Maritime Deepwater Division has been engaged in an aggressive growth strategy in order to support both the BP work and CSO Aker Maritime's other customers.
The agreement covers conceptual and detailed engineering along with procurement and installation support for all subsea equipment and risers for developments being evaluated and executed by BP Exploration's GoM Deepwater Business Unit.
Currently identified projects are in water depths ranging from 4,000 to 6,000 feet (1,200 to 1,800 meters).
Preliminary work on the new GoM projects has begun and BP and their partners are relocating their subsea system teams to CSO Aker's Houston office.
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