QatarEnergy has let an offshore contract to McDermott International to deliver engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) for the North Field East (NFE) topsides and the North Field East (NFE) offshore pipelines and subsea cables projects, with an option included to also award the North Field South (NFS) offshore topsides.
The scope of the contract includes the fabrication and installation of eight wellhead topsides (WHT) for NFE and a further five WHT for NFS. The subsea pipeline scope includes over 300 miles (500 km) of pipelines and, in addition, McDermott will install over 140 miles (225 km) of 33kV subsea cables and associated works.
For the first time, four of these WHT, plus all subsea infrastructure, will be fabricated in QFAB, the McDermott-Nakilat joint venture fabrication yard in Qatar. The remaining fabrication will be done in collaboration with McDermott's facility in Batam, Indonesia.
The NFE development will provide feed gas into the four new LNG Trains currently under construction and, together, with the NFS infrastructure, which will provide feed gas for the future additional two LNG trains, will enable an increase in total LNG production in Qatar to 126 million tonnes/year (tpy) from 77 million tpy.