Ekofisk Jacket Contract to Aker Solutions

ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS, Norway has awarded Aker Solutions an EPC contract for platform jacket and a bridge support jacket for the new Ekofisk accommodation platform - Ekofisk 2/4L. The contract will be executed by the Aker Solutions yard in Verdal, and includes engineering, procurement, construction, load-out and sea-fastening of the steel jacket, bridge support jacket and associated piles. The detail engineering starts immediately, while fabrication in Verdal will commence in November 2010. The jacket - and the bridge support jacket - will be delivered in the spring of 2012, and will then become number 36 and 37 in the series of jackets delivered by Aker Verdal.