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McDermott announces delivery of U-Field
for ONGC’s KG-DWN 98/2 Block
PROJECTS & MCDERMOTT International announced on India in the last 18 months,” stated McDermott’s
COMPANIES March 23 that it had navigated challenges includ- senior vice-president for Asia-Pacific, Mahesh
ing the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and Swaminathan. “The company’s diverse fleet
an active monsoon season to deliver the U-Field brought significant efficiencies and achieved
gas project offshore India. notable firsts during the offshore campaign. This
The project is part of state-owned Oil and Nat- campaign marked the first use of pipe-in-pipe
ural Gas Corp.’s (ONGC) KG-DWN 98/2 Block insulation technology in an offshore India pro-
development in the Bay of Bengal off India’s east ject. The LV105 also installed the first pipe-in-
coast. In its statement, McDermott described pipe production flowline in India as part of this
KG-DWN 98/2 as “the largest and one of the campaign,” Swaminathan added.
most complex subsea projects in Asia-Pacific,” “The opening of the U1-B (GX-06) well in the
involving extensive subsea infrastructure instal- DWN-98/2 Block is a major milestone that we can
lation in ultradeep waters. all be immensely proud of,” said L&T HE’s CEO
McDermott has been tasked with delivering and managing director, Subramanian Sarma,
two gas systems for the U-Field and R-Field at who also serves as whole-time director and senior
the block, while Larsen & Toubro Hydrocarbon executive vice-president of energy at L&T. “That
Engineering (L&T HE) is in charge of manufac- we managed to achieve this despite extremely dif-
turing the structures for the project. ficult project terrain and weather conditions even
The U-Field is now connected to ONGC’s as a global pandemic raged on, speaks volumes of
Vashishtha subsea infrastructure, McDermott the resolve of the project teams.”
said. The company also noted its work on that The DWN-98/2 Block is expected to signifi-
piece of infrastructure. cantly increase India’s gas production upon com-
“This is the fourth gas production milestone pletion, helping to reduce the country’s reliance
McDermott has delivered on the east coast of on imports.
ONGC commissions water injection
platform at Mumbai High
PROJECTS & INDIA’S Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) has Days after the announcement about the facil-
COMPANIES commissioned a new water injection platform at ity’s start-up, India’s Comptroller and Auditor
its Mumbai High project off the country’s west General (CAG) said the country had lost 3.8mn
coast. tonnes (27.9mn barrels) of oil over four years
The company announced on its social media as a result of ONGC’s water injection projects
channels on March 19 that the WIS-R platform off the west coast not hitting their targets. The
had been commissioned as part of the Mumbai lost barrels, identified for the audit period from
High Phase IV redevelopment. The facility is 2014-15 to 2018-19, are estimated to be worth
expected to help boost production from the field INR112.76bn ($1.48bn).
via low-salinity water injection. Mumbai High was identified as one of the
The water injection platform was built by fields where water injection was required as
Larsen & Toubro (L&T), and has a processing production declines, along with the Neelam and
capacity of 350,000 barrels per day (bpd) of Heera fields.
water. The low-salinity water injection sys- The CAG cited ageing injection infrastruc-
tem incorporated into the project is reported ture, frequent pipeline leakages owing to the
to be the first of its kind for ONGC and has poor quality of injection water, non-implemen-
the capacity to handle up to 125,000 bpd of tation of feasibility report inputs and, to some
water. extent, production from wells with a high gas-
L&T was awarded the engineering, procure- oil ratio as having played a role in the underper-
ment, construction and installation (EPCI) formance of water injection projects.
contract for the facility in 2019. The platform is The CAG said this loss could not be consid-
linked to existing water injection infrastructure ered as deferred production but rather a perma-
at Mumbai High. nent loss of oil.
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