Qatar Petroleum has let the front-end engineering design contract for the North field expansion project’s offshore pipelines and topsides facilities to McDermott Middle East Inc.
The scope of the work includes engineering design for eight unmanned wellhead platform topsides, four 38-in. trunk lines, and four 28-in. intrafield lines. It is expected to take 12 months to complete.
The award comes on the heels of announcements for other components of the project as part of QP’s plans to expand Qatar’s LNG production to 110 million tonnes/year by 2024 from the current 77 million tpy (OGJ Online, Apr. 15, 2019).
