McDermott International Inc. was awarded a large project for a new jacket, temporary deck and replacement umbilical by Qatar Petroleum for the North Field Alpha gas development offshore Qatar, the company said in a March 2 statement. McDermott expects to execute work through second-quarter 2016. The work will be included in McDermott’s first-quarter 2015 backlog.
The brownfield contract includes FEED verification, detailed engineering, procurement, construction (EPC), installation and commissioning of a new six-legged, 15-slot wellhead jacket and temporary drill deck, with a total weight of about 5,000 tons. The work also includes the decommissioning, removal, replacement and pre-commissioning of 2.6 miles of composite umbilical and a fiber optic cable in the Maydan Mahzam field.
Detailed EPC is expected to be carried out by McDermott’s specialist teams in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with vessels from the McDermott global fleet scheduled to undertake the installation work in 2016.
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