US based firm McDermott has completed the load-out and installation of the first jacket made by the company at its recently opened Dammam fabrication yard in Saudi Arabia.
The Safaniya 264 jacket is part of McDermott’s long term agreement for work with Saudi Aramco.
McDermott’s vice president of Middle East and Caspian said: “The load-out of the first jacket from our Dammam fabrication facility marks another milestone in McDermott’s long term commitment to Saudi Arabia and their Vision 2030.
“Not only have we delivered our first jacket from our new facility, we’ve done it to Saudi Aramco’s schedule; all with no lost time incidents.”
The jacket has been installed in the Safaniya oilfield, located 200 kilometres north of Dhahran in the Arabian Gulf.
The Dammam yard has now gone over 600,000 hours without a lost-time incident, and is working on several projects.
The yard is currently manufacturing four jackets, eight bridges and over 70 subsea pipeline spools, as well as onshore support work.