Saudi Aramco has let two contracts to McDermott International Inc. for engineering, procurement, construction, and installation services for Marjan oil field offshore Saudi Arabia. Aramco is expanding production capacity of Marjan field, now 500,000 b/d, by 300,000 b/d.
One contract—valued at $50-100 million—is for services for the upgrade of two existing platforms related to the installation of associated equipment for electrical submersible pumps and space for a future high integrity pressure protection system, subsea composite cable lay, and topside cable tie-ins.
The project is scheduled to be fully executed from McDermott's Al Khobar office and Dammam fabrication facility.
A second contract—valued at $500-700 million—includes the design, procurement, fabrication, and installation, testing and precommissioning of the TP-10 tie-in platform, six gas lift topside modules, and associated pipeline and subsea cables. The total weight of the structures will exceed 27,000 tonnes and pipelines totaling more than 65 km.
Fabrication work will be executed from McDermott’s Jebel Ali yard in Dubai and Dammam yard in Saudi Arabia. Engineering work will be executed from both Dubai and the Al Khobar office in Saudi Arabia. Derrick Barge 50 and Derrick Barge 27 will be utilized.
