The French contractor has been handed a lump-sum deal for the engineering, procurement and fabrication of 120 kilometres of umbilicals for the development in Block 32. Total has handed the contract to a consortium composed of Angoflex and Duco. However, the former is a joint venture between Technip and Angolan state oil company Sonangol, while the latter is a 100% subsidiary of Technip. Sonangol holds 30% in Angoflex with the French player retaining the balance. The majority of the umbilicals will be built at the Angoflex plant in Lobito, Angola, with the project managed from the UK by Duco. Work will start immediately with the first umbilicals set to be delivered in 2016. The contract should be completed in 2017. Technip did not put a precise value on the deal but said it is somewhere between €250 million ($345.42 million) and €500 million. Total reached a final investment decision on its $16 billion ultra-deepwater project earlier this week.