Saipem Offshore Track Record
| 1956/57 | Laying of the first offshore pipeline in Africa, at Abu Rudeis, Egypt by Snam Montaggi, then Saipem. |
| 1961 | First Agip platform installed in Gela, Sicily. |
| 1966 | Huelva pipelines laying, Spain - “the true Saipem start in pipelaying operations”. |
| 1971-1973 | Worldwide presence: Now Rouz and Kharg island pipelines, Iran. |
| 1973 | North Sea first pipeline - BP Forties Field. |
| 1975 onward | Agip’s Adriatic Sea platforms and sealines installation activity expansion. |
| 1978 | Algeria-Italy Transmed project: 3 pipelines, deepwater crossings of Messina and Sicily Channels. World record for deepwater pipelaying operations. |
| 1981 | Dong Doras pipeline project: first North Sea full length trunkline. |
| 1987 | Polo Nordeste Brazil: first Saipem heavy lifting platform installation. |
| 1990 | Britoil Bruce/Agip UK Tiffany platforms, among the first heavy liftings in the North Sea performed by Saipem 7000. |
| 1991 | Zeepipe pipeline trunkline in Norwegian North Sea, performed by Saipem and Brown & Root equally owned new Company, EMC. |
| 1992 | Algeria - Italy Transmed project : 4thand 5thpipelines upgrade. |
| 1993 | First large trunkline pipelaying activities in China and Thailand, Hainan island and Yacheng areas. |
| 1994 | Europipe project and Zeepipe II: Saipem’s North Sea supremacy in longest trunkline laying. |
| 1994 | Magreb-Europe gas pipeline and deepwater Gibraltar Straits crossing. |
| 1996 | South-East Asia trunkline offshore Myanmar, at Yadana field location. |
| 1996 | BP Andrew world heavy lift record with 10,400 t and Saipem’s first Alliance concept project. |
| 1997-2000 | U.S.A. Diana Hoover project: heavy lifts and Saipem’s first in J-lay pipeline operations. |
| 1997 | Jamnagar EPCI marine loading terminal, India. |
| 1998 | Saipem’s opening in Canada with EPCI Mobil Sable platform project, in 3 phases. |
| 1998 | Firenze FPSO, Aquila field, Italy: first built and operated Saipem FPSO unit. |
| 2001 | Blue Stream project: deepwater gas transmission system for delivery of gas from Southern Russia to Turkey, across the Black Sea, performed in J-lay mode. |
| 2001-2005 | West Africa Kizomba A and B projects, Angola: first deepwater SURF developments performed by Saipem with the aim of the new FDS high technology vessel. |
| 2002 | Libyan majestic projects performed by Saipem as EPCI main contractor: Bahr Essalam pipelines and Sabratha platform. |
| 2002 | Installation of deepwater large diameter pipeline between Libya and Sicily, namely LGTS Greenstream pipeline. |
| 2003 | West Africa Saipem’s leadership in EPCI management of pipelines and structures projects, as Mobil‘s Yoho huge development. |
| 2003 | Russia: Sakhalin EPCI pipelines and installation of platform, with biggest topside ever installed by float-over method. |
| 2003 | Total Angola deepwater Rosa development confirms Saipem among the most skilled worldwide contractors specialised in EPCI Subsea Umbilicals, Riser, Flowlines (SURF) systems. |
| 2004 | North Sea UK sector: the dual strength of Saipem 7000 and Castoro Sei performed the major Buzzard project, comprehensive of both sealines and platforms scope of work, as the latest huge field developments in the area. Also, Saipem completed the BBL interconnector trunkline connecting Europe mainland to UK. |
| 2005 | Qatar’s Dolphin pipeline EPCI project, the longest offshore pipeline ever laid in the Persian Gulf. |
| 2007-2008 | Egyptian deepwater SURF project for the construction of EPCI subsea facilities and control system in West Delta Deep Marine concession for Burullus Gas Company. |
| 2009 | Completion in Nigeria of the Total Akpo Project, a deepwater (1,350 m) field development demanding many important innovations due to the technical content of the work. |
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