McDermott has won a “mega offshore contract” with QatarEnergy for the North Field East LNG project.
The US-headquartered firm said the engineering, procurement construction and installation (EPCI) deal is “one of the largest single contracts McDermott has been awarded in its company history”.
McDermott will provide topsides and offshore pipelines and subsea cables to QatarEnergy for North Field East, with an option included to also award the North Field South offshore topsides.
The North Field East project will increase total LNG production from Qatar from 77million tonnes per annum to 126million tonnes.
The deal was announced by QatarEnergy last week.
Senior vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Tareq Kawash, said: “For McDermott, this contract shows that we are back stronger than ever and our key customers have confidence in our ability to deliver strategically significant energy infrastructure.
“Our technology, fabrication-driven approach, along with our involvement in this specific offshore development, which began with the front-end engineering design—make us the ideal partner to provide QatarEnergy with the confidence and assurance required to execute a project of such complexity and magnitude.”
The work includes fabrication and installation of eight wellhead topsides for North Field East and a further five for North Field South.
More than 300miles of pipelines and more than 140miles of 33kV subsea cables are included in the contract, with all subsea infrastructure to be fabricated within Qatar.
The remainder of the fabrication work will be carried out at McDermott’s facility in Batam, Indonesia.
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