McDermott wins third contract on Qatar gas mega-project

DOHA, October 3, 2024 – McDermott has been awarded a contract by QatarEnergy LNG to provide engineering, procurement, construction and installation for the North Field South (NFS) project’s offshore pipelines and cables, the US company said on Thursday.

McDermott will provide EPCI for 250 kilometres of offshore and onshore gas pipelines connecting five new offshore wellhead platforms to two new onshore LNG trains, in addition to subsea composite power and control cables.

The value of the contract was not specified.

The company previously won contracts for FEED for the NFS pipelines and EPCI for the NFS jackets and the NFXP topsides and pipelines, the scope of which included the NFS topsides.

In February, QatarEnergy announced plans to expand production in its North Field, the world’s largest known gas reservoir, and increase the country’s LNG production capacity by at least 16 million tpy. The move is in addition to a 49-million-tpy expansion project already underway, and would bring North Field LNG output to 142 million tpy by 2030.

The project, known as the North Field Expansion Project, involves developing infrastructure to supply feed gas for two additional LNG trains.

“McDermott is now responsible for all of the offshore infrastructure associated with Qatar’s massive North Field Expansion, with the execution done predominantly in Qatar,” said Neil Gunnion, McDermott’s Qatar country manager and vice-president of operations.

“Between our main execution center in Doha and our QFAB fabrication facility in Ras Laffan, we are able to deliver complex offshore projects for Qatar, in Qatar.”

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