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McDermott wins FEED work for Qatar’s North Field Expansion
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StAte-owned Qatar Petroleum (QP) has awarded a front-end engineering and design (Feed) contract to US-based services firm Mcdermott for its north Field expansion (nFe) project.
the Feed contract covers wellhead plat- forms, pipelines and cables. In a press release, Mcdermott said that the scope of the work entailed the design of four o shore trunklines with intra- eld pipelines, eight wellhead plat- forms and power and bre-optic (PFo) subsea cable rings. e contract is thought to be worth up to $50mn.
the estimated US$20bn expansion of the north Field has been the focus of external and internal attention on the Qatari energy sector since this e ort was launched nearly two years ago. e scheme is designed to raise upstream output by 1.4mn barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) to 6.2mn boepd and expand LnG production by 31mn tonnes per year (tpy) to 110mn tpy. e contracting process on the nFe is well underway, with a tender for the four new LnG trains having been issued in mid-April. on April 22, QP turned to the transportation pro- cess, issuing a tender for potentially in excess of 100 LnG tankers.
e main package, worth several billion dol- lars, covers four 7.8mn tpy LnG ‘mega-trains’ at
the site where 14 trains of varying sizes currently produce just over 77mn tpy.
Japan’s Chiyoda was selected for the Feed contract in March 2018 and, in joint venture (JV) with technipFMC, is the strong favourite. Chiyoda and technipFMC installed the six pre- vious mega-trains at the complex, completed last decade before the imposition of a 12-year devel- opment moratorium at the eld.
e contracting process on the nFe is well underway, with a tender for the four new LnG trains having been issued in mid-April to three ePC JVs: Chiyoda and technipFMC; JGC and Hyundai engineering & Construction; and Saipem, Mcdermott and CtCI.
A nal award is likely to await an FId, due later this year.
e other two onshore packages cover load- ing facilities, including storage tanks and two berths, and infrastructure, chiefly pipelines, tying in the new components with existing facil- ities at the Ras La an complex.
QP Ceo Saad al-Kaabi has said on several occasions that all the ePC contracts on the scheme will be let by the end of 2019 under a schedule envisaging completion in 2023.
on April 22, QP turned to the transportation process, issuing a tender for potentially in excess of 100 LnG tankers.™
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Israel receives only two bids in second licensing round
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deSPIte earlier talk of interest from Petrobras and exxonMobil, Israel had received only two bids from joint ventures (JVs) made up of jun- ior and midcap players when bidding closed on July 15.
documents were received from local rm Ratio oil exploration in JV with Cairn energy and Soco International, both of the UK and from a consortium of Greek rm energean and Israel opportunity, with the parties bidding for 12 of the 19 blocks available, each of which covers 400 square km.
e deadline for bidding was pushed back from June 17 to July 15 amid apparent con- cerns about a lack of interest. At the time, the
Petroleum Commissioner said the delay came about to give bidders “more time to complete their assessments”, expressing satisfaction with the interest shown by participating companies.
Ahead of a visit by Brazil’s new President Jair Bolsonaro, Israeli energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said in March that Petrobras had agreed to bid, while the same month, reports emerged suggest- ing that US super-major exxonMobil was con- sidering participation.
Upon the announcement of the delay, a sen- ior Israeli industry source told Middle East Oil & Gas (MEOG): “I don’t believe companies [like exxonMobil and Petrobras] need extra time.”
winning bids from the round are scheduled
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