OREANDA-NEWS. September 09, 2015. Oceaneering International, Inc. (NYSE:OII) announced that it secured a contract from Shell Offshore Inc. (“Shell”) to supply umbilicals for the deepwater Appomattox development located in the Mississippi Canyon area of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

The order is for electro-hydraulic steel tube control umbilicals, totaling approximately 60 kilometers (37 miles) in length. Product manufacturing is planned to be performed at Oceaneering’s umbilical facility in Panama City, Florida and is expected to commence in the fourth quarter of 2015 and be completed in the third quarter of 2017.

This contract is another award by Shell to Oceaneering for a state-of-the-art umbilical under an Enterprise Frame Agreement, which was executed in November 2012.

In accordance with the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Oceaneering International, Inc. cautions that statements in this press release which are forward-looking involve risks and uncertainties that may impact Oceaneering’s actual results. The forward-looking statements in this press release include the statements concerning Oceaneering’s planned manufacturing location and commencement and completion dates. Although Oceaneering’s management believes that the expectations reflected in those forward-looking statements are reasonable, Oceaneering can give no assurance that those expectations will prove to have been correct. Those statements are made based on various underlying assumptions and are subject to numerous uncertainties and risks, including without limitation, changes in project design or schedule, contract cancellation, change orders and other modifications, and difficulties executing on the project. If one or more of these risks materialize, or if underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those expected. For a more complete discussion of these and other risk factors, please see Oceaneering’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Oceaneering undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.