Saudi Aramco Sign Offshore LSTK Contracts

Saudi Aramco recently signed two contracts with J. Ray McDermott Middle East and McDermott Arabia Company Ltd., subsidiaries of J. Ray McDermott, S.A., to detail design, procure, fabricate, transport and install offshore facilities for the Maintain Potential and Khursaniyah Upstream Pipeline programs.

The first contract includes two drilling support structures in Zuluf Field to be installed in December 2006 and one new wellhead production platform in Central Safaniya Field to support onstream start-up in May 2007.

Three additional wellhead platforms will be installed in Central Safaniya and Zuluf Fields by December 2007. New associated flowlines will connect these platforms to existing offshore tie-in (manifold) platforms.

To support increasing production in Central Safaniya field, a new tie-in platform (Safaniya TP-18) also will be engineered, procured, fabricated and installed by December 2007, along with a 24-inch trunkline between it and a subsea connection on the new 42-inch trunkline flowing to the onshore Safaniya GOSP-1, installed under a separate contract.

The second contract is associated with the subsea portion, approximately 22 km long, of the 30-inch gas pipeline from Abu Ali Island to an onshore site at Khursaniyah to be installed by May 2007.

This subsea portion is part of the new 66 km BKTG-1 pipeline that will transport 220 million standard cubic feet per day of gas from Abu Ali Plant to Khursaniyah Gas Plant.

The contracts are lump sum turnkey (LSTK) and the first to be executed by Saudi Aramco for offshore work.

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Posted 10/04/06

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