McDermott scoops two contracts in Middle East

McDermott, a provider of EPCI services for the oil & gas industry, has been awarded an EPCI contract with Saudi Aramco and a pipelay contract with an unnamed client, both in the Middle East. 

McDermott informed on Wednesday it has been awarded a ‘substantial contract’ from Saudi Aramco for engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) services in the Safaniya and Zuluf fields offshore Saudi Arabia.

According to the company, the brownfield project is part of a wider program to replace aging facilities with electrified platforms to enhance the potential of the fields. The contract includes the design, procurement, fabrication, transportation, installation, testing and pre-commissioning of nine slipover jackets and decks, subsea pipelines and cables, as well as the associated demolition of certain facilities, in the Safaniya field. The contract also includes one single well observation platform in the Zuluf field.

“McDermott’s partnership with Saudi Aramco developing the Safaniya field dates back more than 50 years,” said Linh Austin, McDermott’s Vice President, Middle East and Caspian.

The company was also recently awarded a contract to provide a fast-track EPCI solution for four jackets and three gas observation platforms for Saudi Aramco. The total weight of all structures combined is 11,595 tons.

The Safaniya oil field, located approximately 125 miles (201 km) north of Dhahran in the Arabian Gulf, is currently the largest offshore oil field in the world. McDermott’s work in the Safaniya field dates back to 1964, with the installation of 62 platforms and a large number of associated flexibles, umbilicals, flow/trunk pipelines and power/composite cables.

Over the last six years, McDermott has been involved with three major electrification projects in the Safaniya field, which included 13 new platforms and 34 platform upgrades and modifications. During this period, McDermott installed Saudi Aramco’s largest platform at 6,600 tons and the world’s longest 230kV composite cable at approximately 29 miles (46.7 km).

Work on the new contract is expected to begin immediately and will be reflected in McDermott’s fourth quarter 2016 backlog.

McDermott plans to use its engineering and procurement teams in Dubai, UAE and its recently opened office in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. Construction will take place at McDermott’s fabrication facilities in Dubai and Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Vessels from McDermott’s global fleet are scheduled to perform the installation work.

Pipelay work

McDermot also informed it has been awarded an offshore pipelay contract in the Middle East, which includes the engineering, procurement and installation of two oil pipelines offshore. Work on this contract is expected to be completed by the end of the second quarter in 2018.

Work on this contract is also expected to begin immediately and will be reflected in McDermott’s fourth quarter 2016 backlog.

Detailed engineering and procurement is expected to be carried out by McDermott’s specialist teams in Dubai, U.A.E with vessels from the McDermott global fleet scheduled to undertake the installation work in 2018.

Offshore Energy Today Staff