McDermott Wins Significant Subsea Fabrication Work in Australia
2010.10.12 -
Contracts
The project involves the construction of 12,000 tonnes of subsea structures and spools, which will be carried out at McDermott’s fabrication facility in Batam Island, Indonesia.
“This project is a significant win for our company and further strengthens McDermott’s strategic positioning as a service provider in the fast developing subsea, umbilicals, risers and flowlines (“SURF”) market in Asia Pacific,” said Stephen M. Johnson, McDermott’s President and Chief Executive Officer.
The scope of work encompasses the fabrication of various eight-slot, six-slot and four-slot manifolds, including pipeline termination structures, pipeline end terminations, spools, well jumpers, and subsea pig launchers/receivers. Work is scheduled to commence later this year, with completion expected in the last quarter of 2012.
This is the second contract McDermott has won for the Gorgon project. Earlier this year, the company was contracted to supply more than 60 pre-assembled racks and units with an estimated combined weight of approximately 25,000 tonnes.
The Gorgon Upstream Project supports Chevron’s development of the Gorgon and Janz fields located offshore Northwest Australia. Gorgon is the world’s largest subsea to beach Liquefied Natural Gasdevelopment, and is Australia’s largest known gas resource.
Cameron (NYSE: CAM) has signed a three-year worldwide preferred supplier agreement with Schlumberger Integrated Project Management (IPM) for the supply of a wide range of flow equipment products and services. As part of the agreement, Cameron will provide Schlumberger IPM with all surface, subsea, drilling, measurement, compression and downstream equipment on a worldwide basis.
ClampOn has been awarded a contract for delivery of five subsea ClampOn DSP Leak Monitors to the Tampen Link project in the Norwegian sector in the North Sea (Sept 07). ClampOn will supply its ultrasonic non-intrusive acoustic Leak Monitors to Technip Norge AS on behalf of Statoil. The Leak Monitors will be retrofitted on two 20” gas valves on the seabed to verify/disprove through-valve gas leakage. These valves are currently open and they will be shut to close off the bypass alternative.
Helix Energy Solutions (NYSE: HLX) announced today that it has received a Letter of Intent ("LOI") for the installation of the subsea infrastructure for the VIC/P44 Stage 2 Development project in the Otway Basin offshore Australia. Participants in the VIC/P44 permit are Santos Limited (Operator) 50%, Peedamullah Petroleum Pty Ltd (Australian Worldwide Exploration) 25% and Mitsui E&P Australia Pty Ltd. 25%.
Velosi Limited Velosi or the Group, a provider of asset integrity and HSE services to a number of major national and multinational oil and gas companies, is pleased to announce that it has been re-awarded a contract from Mobil Producing Nigeria, for the next three years with an option to extend for a further one year.
Fugro has been awarded a contract to perform a detailed marine survey in the Mediterranean Sea to select the best route for the GALSI gas pipeline from Algeria to Southern Sardinia and then from Northern Sardinia to the mainland of Italy. The contract value is approximately EUR 18 million.
