Global engineering and construction firm McDermott has secured an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract from Qatar Energy to expand its North Field LNG project.
Specifically, the contract focuses on the North Field South (NFS) Offshore Pipelines and Cables project, which is part of the North Field expansion project.
The NFS infrastructure is designed to supply feed gas for two additional LNG trains, which will help to increase the total LNG production in the State of Qatar from the current 77 million tonnes per annum to 142 million tonnes per annum.
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McDermott is now responsible for all of the offshore infrastructure associated with Qatar’s massive North Field Expansion, with the execution done predominantly in Qatar.
Neil Gunnion, Qatar Country Manger and Vice-President of Operations at McDermott, said, “We are honoured to once again to receive the trust of QatarEnergy and QatarEnergy LNG to deliver some of their largest and most strategically important projects.”
The EPCI contract includes almost 250 kilometres of offshore and onshore gas pipelines connecting five new offshore wellhead platforms with two new onshore LNG trains in addition to subsea composite power and control cables.
McDermott will manage the project from its Doha office with in-country fabrication support from the QFAB fabrication yard and will be installed with McDermott’s inhouse marine assets.
Gunnion, concluded, “Between our main execution centre in Doha and our QFAB fabrication facility in Ras Laffan, we are able to deliver complex offshore projects for Qatar, in Qatar.”
According to market research, a of 2022, the export volume of LNG from Qatar was 108.37 billion cubic meters. Qatar has the largest natural gas reserves in the world after Russia and Iran.
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