BUSINESS CHALLENGE In May 2003, Technip was awarded a major contract by Total Angola E&P to construct a pipeline for the deepwater Dalia oil field, discovered in 1997, 135 km off the Angolan coast in Africa. The project entailed the use of a 16-inch diameter pipe-in-pipe (PiP) flowline. The pipeline would be constructed onshore, spooled onto a ship-mounted reel in batches of 5-6 km, then unwound onto the seabed at the Dalia site. To ensure the

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