Technip has placed a $500m order with South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering.

The Paris-quoted subsea engineering has contracted two pipelaying support vessels for delivery in August 2014.

The ships will then be placed on long-term charter to Brazilian oil giant Petrobras.

This follows last month’s announcement of large contracts that Technip had won from Shell for installation projects in the Gulf of Mexico.

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