ENI taps Intec for deepwater GOM's K2 subsea production tech support

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Apr. 26 -- ENI Petroleum Co. Inc. has contracted Intec Engineering, Houston, to provide technical support for subsea production facilities in deepwater K2 field on Green Canyon Block 562 in the Gulf of Mexico.

K2, in 3,900-4,300 ft of water, includes a two-to-three well cluster in the North Fault Block area and one or two wells in the South Fault Block area, all to be tied back 8 miles to a host tension leg platform. Production, designed for a capacity of 60,000 b/d of oil, is slated to start up in March 2005.

Contracts for dual pipe-in-pipe flowlines and umbilical installations are scheduled for this spring.