McDermott, a US subsea and deepwater engineering and construction company, has announced that it has been awarded a new contract by QatarEnergy LNG for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of the North Field South (NFS) offshore pipeline and cable project.
McDermott’s scope of work under the contract, for an undisclosed value, includes EPCI of nearly 250 km of offshore and onshore gas pipelines for five new offshore wellhead platforms and two new onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) production lines, as well as subsea composite power and control cables.
It is worth noting that as early as 2022, McDermott had won the pipeline front-end engineering design contract (FEED), the jacket EPCI contract, and the NFXP topside facilities and pipelines (including NFS topside facilities) contract for the North Field South project.
The latest contract will be managed by McDermott’s Doha office, with in-country fabrication support provided by the QFAB fabrication facility, and will utilise McDermott’s in-house marine assets for the installation.
It is understood that the North Field South infrastructure is intended to supply feed gas for two other LNG production lines and is part of QatarEnergy’s North Field expansion project, which will increase Qatar’s LNG production capacity from 77 million tons/year to 142 million tons/year.
The expansion project is driving QatarEnergy’s “Hundred Ships Plan”, which has already seen it place orders for more than 120 new LNG carriers from Chinese and South Korean shipyards.