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Qatar nearing decision
on Al-Shaheen contract
QATAR QATAR’S North Oil Co. (NOC) joint venture is with South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding &
reportedly nearing a decision to award a contract Marine Engineering and Vietnam’s PetroViet-
for work on the upcoming expansion of its larg- nam Services Corp. (PTSC) picking up work to
est oilfield. build platforms.
The JV is understood to be considering bids The latter was awarded an EPC & installation
received from various international contractors (EPCI) contract in late 2018 worth $300mn for
in March to carry out front-end engineering and wellhead platforms and bridges under the first
design (FEED) work for the third phase of the phase of Gallaf.
Gallaf project to maintain oil production from NOC is a 70:30 JV between state-owned
the offshore Al-Shaheen field, which currently QatarEnergy and France’s TotalEnergies.
runs at around 600,000 barrels per day (bpd), The French super-major joined forces with
accounting for around half of Qatari output. QatarEnergy on a 25-year deal in July 2017 when
Speaking to Upstream, a source close to the Qatari firm had failed to reach a mutually
proceedings said this week that US engineer acceptable new agreement with the long-stand-
McDermott International has emerged as the ing incumbent, Denmark’s Maersk Oil. The
frontrunner, having been awarded the contract French company pledged investment of $3.5bn
for pre-FEED work in 2021. over the first five years of the 25-year agreement
Another source said that the scope of work to maintain and potentially increase output from
for the so-called Gallaf 3.1 covers 11 wellhead the complex field, located in the offshore Block 5.
platforms, one riser platform, a central process- Output from Al-Shaheen has roughly dou-
ing platform, living quarters and a flare tower. bled since then, thanks to two expansion phases,
In 2021, NOC awarded more than $1bn and now comprises around 300 wells, 33 plat-
worth of engineering, procurement and con- forms and various production centres which tie
struction (EPC) contracts for Gallaf Phase 2, back to the mainland.
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