Eric Watkins
Senior Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Apr. 7 -- Azerbaijan International Operating Co. has let a contract to McDermott Caspian Contractors Inc. (MCCI), a subsidiary of J. Ray McDermott, SA, for further pipeline installation in third-phase development of Azeri, Chirag, and deepwater Gunashli (ACG) fields off Azerbaijan (see map, OGJ, Oct. 18, 2004, p. 39).
MCCI said the existing second-phase contract for offshore pipelay in West and East Azeri fields awarded by AIOC has been extended to include engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation, and precommissioning of two oil export pipelines and one gas line, as well as previously installed pipelines.
The first and second-phase oil and gas pipelines extend 187 km from Azeri field to landfall at Sangachal.
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