Prysmian reports that it has been awarded a contract worth over €100 million by Petrobras to provide 170 km of deep-water electro-hydraulic umbilicals and related specialized offshore and logistic services.

A press release said that the deal calls for deep-water steel tube and thermoplastic umbilicals. They will be engineered, produced, tested and delivered from 2024-2027 by Prysmian’s offshore specialties site in Vila Velha, Brazil.

“This award confirms the mutual trust and long-standing relationship between Petrobras and Prysmian Group, as it is the latest of several projects developed for the Brazilian energy company,” said Detlev Waimann, CCO Projects Business Unit, Prysmian Group.

The release said that the dedicated Offshore Specialties unit can deliver solutions for the most challenging subsea projects. In recent years, the Group has invested in further expanding its industrial assets in the Vila Velha plant and its logistic delivery options, as well its entire end-to-end value generation process, from the R&D modelling up to offshore services, to better meet customer needs offering technologically advanced cable solutions.

Per a company data sheet, the umbilicals are high pressure hydraulic control hoses made of a nylon extruded liner, reinforced with a polyaramid braid and sheathed with an extruded polyurethane layer. Electrical control cables are insulated and jacketed with SEVEREX high performance compounds. The electrical cable design and performance can meet the most demanding and specific system requirements. The umbilical components are assembled and sheathed with a polymeric extruded layer and then armored with a counter-helix double-layer flat steel wire armor, to virtually eliminate any torsional tendency due to installation/operation stresses and improve the umbilical hydrodynamic stability.