HOUSTON, April 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Helix Energy Solutions
(NYSE: HLX) announced today that it has signed a letter of intent with
Murphy Exploration & Production Company for the installation of the Thunder
Hawk export pipelines and flowlines. Helix's latest deepwater asset, the
Caesar, will perform this work supported by Helix's subsidiary, Canyon
Offshore. The work will take place in the Mississippi Canyon area in the
Gulf of Mexico in a water depth of 6,100 ft. and consists of the
installation of two 12" export pipelines and two 8" insulated flowlines,
all with accompanying steel catenary risers and pipeline end terminations.
The installation is scheduled to take place in the summer of 2008.
The Caesar also is scheduled to install the flowline for Helix's Noonan
discovery in the first half of 2008. This flowline will be installed in a
water depth of almost 3,000 ft in the Garden Bank area of the Gulf of
Mexico.
Helix has appointed Roy Sijthoff as the head of its Deepwater
Contracting business unit. This business unit owns two deepwater reel pipe
lay vessels, the Express and the Intrepid. The S-Lay vessel Caesar will
join the Helix fleet later this year. Prior to joining Helix in September
2005, Roy worked for Allseas USA as managing director for 10 years and
before that for Smit International and Rockwater.
The Helix deepwater reel lay vessel, the Intrepid, recently
successfully completed the installation of Shell Offshore, Inc.'s Crosby
Pastel Pink Pipe- In-Pipe (PIP) flowline system. The project was the first
PIP system that Helix has constructed and installed. The project involved
some innovative welding applications as well as a simplified bulkhead
installation methodology. Shell contracted with Helix for the construction
and installation of the 4" x 8" PIP which included the installation of a
pipeline-end-termination (PLET) on each end. The flowline and PLETS were
installed from an existing manifold in Mississippi Canyon block 899 to a
satellite well in approximately 4,000 feet of water in Mississippi Canyon
block 898. The pipe was spooled onto the Helix reel lay vessel Intrepid in
late December 2006 and the offshore installation was completed successfully
by mid January 2007.
Bart Heijermans, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
of Helix commented, "The execution of the LOI for the Thunder Hawk contract
constitutes a major milestone for the Caesar and our company. We are very
pleased with the level of interest in the Caesar and are confident that
this asset will become a major contributor to our company and the industry.
The appointment of Roy Sijthoff as head of our Deepwater Contracting
business provides this fast growing global business with the seasoned
leadership to achieve its potential. The successful installation of Pastel
Pink PIP demonstrates the technical and execution skills of our employees
and assets, and we appreciate the opportunity we received from Shell to
demonstrate our capabilities on this project. We are continuing the
transformation into one of the most trusted service providers in the
deepwater trend for services such as deepwater construction and trenching,
rig-less intervention, floating production units and later this year
drilling."
Helix Energy Solutions, headquartered in Houston, Texas, is an
international offshore energy company that provides development solutions
and other key life of field services to the open energy market as well as
to our own oil and gas business unit. That business unit is a prospect
generation, exploration, development and production entity. Employing our
own key services and methodologies, we seek to lower finding and
development costs, relative to industry norms.
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complexities of global political and economic developments, geologic risks
and other risks described from time to time in our reports filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including the Company's Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2006. We assume no
obligation and do not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
SOURCE Helix Energy Solutions
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CONTACT:
Wade Pursell, Chief Financial Officer of
Helix Energy Solutions, +1-281-618-0400, or fax, +1-281-618-0505
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