Contract let for Hout tripod platform

Al-Khafji Joint Operations (KFJO), which manages offshore fields in the Partitioned Neutral Zone of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, has let a contract to McDermott International Inc. for engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of a platform in Hout oil field.

Bob Tippee

March 20, 2012

The project includes a tripod jacket, deck, and flare tower and 42 km of 24-in. subsea pipeline in 31 m of water.

Hout is one of several offshore Neutral Zone fields that together produce about 350,000 b/d, mostly from Khafji field, an extension of supergiant Safaniyah field off Saudi Arabia. Hout also is an extension of Safaniyah.

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Bob Tippee

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Bob Tippee has been chief editor of Oil & Gas Journal since January 1999 and a member of the Journal staff since October 1977. Before joining the magazine, he worked as a reporter at the Tulsa World and served for four years as an officer in the US Air Force. A native of St. Louis, he holds a degree in journalism from the University of Tulsa.