SLB OneSubsea wins Eni subsea contract offshore Ivory Coast

OneSubsea, a joint venture backed by SLB, Aker Solutions and Subsea7, has been awarded a major multi-well engineering, procurement and construction contract by Eni for the third phase of the deepwater Baleine project offshore the Ivory Coast. Under the deal, the company will deliver complete subsea production systems for 13 wells, reinforcing its role on one of the region's most significant offshore developments currently under way.

The scope spans subsea trees, umbilical, manifolds, multiphase flowmeters and control systems, along with installation, commissioning and life-of-field support, with execution drawing on the company's in-country presence and local capabilities. An executive said the phase brought together scale and execution certainty, and that the company's technology and established local footprint would help advance a complex deepwater project efficiently while supporting the long-term development of offshore resources in the country.

The wider Baleine Phase 3 development is being taken forward by Eni, with a separate operator owning the floating production vessel. That facility will operate in water depths of roughly 800 to 1,200 metres and is designed to process up to 90,000 barrels of oil and 160m standard cubic feet of natural gas a day, with a design life of at least 20 years. The award follows a separate umbilical contract the company recently secured from the same operator for a field development offshore Indonesia.