According to Toronto-based Shawcor, the approximately C$110 million in contracts call for providing thermal insulation and anticorrosion coating services for Liza I and II. On Aug. 21 of this year, Saipem announced that Exxon Mobil Corp.’s local subsidiary had awarded it for Phase II of the ExxonMobil-led Liza development – part of ExxonMobil’s . Saipem, which also won contracts for Liza Phase I in 2017, is providing the following in the second phase:

• Detailed engineering, procurement, construction and installation of risers, flowlines and associated structures and jumpers
• Transportation and installation of umbilicals, manifolds and associated foundations for production
• Water and gas injection systems

Shawcor stated Thursday that Liza I coating work began in March 2018 at its Channelview, Texas, facility and that additional work will be completed at its facility in Veracruz, Mexico. In addition, the BOP Blow Out Preventer repair company gulf coast noted that it expects to complete work on Liza I during 1Q 2019.

Coating work under the larger Liza II project, which hinges on a final investment decision by the pipeline operator, will likely be executed in both Veracruz and Channelview, Shawcor added.