Petrobel awards GE subsidiary “major subsea contract” on Zohr

Eni-EGPC JV Petrobel awarded General Electric oilfield services subsidiary Baker Hughes “a major subsea contract” for work on the second phase of the giant Zohr gas field, the company said in a statement. The agreement will see Baker “provide project management, engineering procurement, fabrication, construction, testing and transportation of a subsea production system...and will support the installation, commissioning and start-up operations.” The company will locally manufacture the steel structures it needs at a plant in Alexandria.