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McDermott wins engineering

work for Al-Shaheen expansion

QATAR US engineer McDermott International has been The French super-major joined forces with
awarded an engineering contract by Qatar’s QatarEnergy on a 25-year deal in July 2017,
North Oil Co. (NOC) for the third phase devel- when the Qatari firm had failed to reach a
opment of Qatar’s offshore Al-Shaheen oilfield. mutually acceptable new agreement with the
The deal covers the front-end engineering long-standing incumbent, Denmark’s Maersk
and design (FEED) work on the Ruya develop- Oil.
ment, previously known as Al-Shaheen Phase The French company pledged investment
3-Batch 1 or Gallaf 3.1. of $3.5bn over the first five years of the 25-year
The company was widely seen as the agreement to maintain and potentially increase
front-runner in the bidding process for the output from the complex field, located in the off-
award, having won the contract for pre-FEED shore Block 5.
work in 2021 and its successful completion. Al-Shaheen field currently runs at around
Tareq Kawash, McDermott’s senior vice 600,000 barrels per day (bpd), accounting for just
president for offshore Middle East, said: “This under half of Qatari output. Output has roughly
is a strategic contract for our offshore business doubled since then thanks to two expansion
in Qatar and a game-changer for McDermott, as phases and now comprises around 300 wells, 33
it represents the largest offshore FEED we have platforms and various production centres which
ever received in the Middle East. As was the case tie back to the mainland.
for the pre-FEED with NOC, work will be led In 2021, NOC awarded more than $1bn
from our highly skilled Doha operating centre worth of engineering, procurement and con-
and will be supported by our Chennai engineer- struction (EPC) contracts for Gallaf Phase 2,
ing office.” with South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding &
McDermott said that the scope of the work Marine Engineering and Vietnam’s PetroViet-
includes developing FEED studies and delivera- nam Services Corp. (PTSC) picking up work to
bles for the engineering, procurement, construc- build platforms.
tion, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) The latter was awarded an EPC & installation
project. (EPCI) contract in late 2018 worth $300mn for
NOC is a 70:30 JV between state-owned wellhead platforms and bridges under the first
QatarEnergy and France’s TotalEnergies. phase of Gallaf.™

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