Qatargas has awarded Saipem SPA an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract for development of the North Field production sustainability offshore project, northeast of Qatar, increasing LNG production capacity to 110 million tonnes/year (tpy) from 77 million tpy. Work includes platforms, supporting and connecting structures, subsea cables, and anticorrosion internally clad pipelines as well as decommissioning of an existing pipeline and modifications to other offshore infrastructure.
Saipem’s DE HE S-lay, heavy lift, dynamically positioned construction, and anchor vessel will execute pipelay and lifting operations in water depths of about 65 m, with first gas anticipated in 2023.
The company is already executing the WHP12N jacket project, awarded in July 2020, as part of the North Field production sustainability project. This jacket is designed for 12 well slots and to support a topsides. Work began in October 2020.
Saipem also received a letter of intent from Qatargas to develop the project’s offshore export pipelines and related onshore works, with award pending definition of contractual details and Qatargas’s final approval.
The EPCI contract is worth about $1.7 billion.
