J.
Ray Mcdermott to build new platform offshore Qatar
Posted: 22 April 2004
RasGas WH9 Turnkey Project Awarded to J. Ray McDermott
J. Ray McDermott Eastern Hemisphere Ltd has been awarded further
work offshore Qatar by Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas Company
Limited (II).
On March 31, 2004, Ras Laffan exercised the WH9 deck and pipeline
option under the RasGas Expansion Project Contract, originally awarded
to J. Ray McDermott three years ago to the day (31/3/01).
Work of this type is typically valued at over US$70 million.
”It's great to get the go ahead for another significant sector
of the RasGas Expansion project, and it is a welcome boost to our
Middle East order book,” said Hafez Aghili president, J. Ray
McDermott’s Middle Eastern operations.
Under the WH9 option, J. Ray will handle the turnkey project management,
design engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation, hook-up
and mechanical completion of a 2,200-tonne wellhead deck, as well
as the installation of a 7km 28” intra field pipeline and
10km intra field subsea cable. The job is expected to take thirty-three
months to complete.
“Part of the WH9 option has already been exercised,”
explained Stewart Mitchell, J. Ray’s project manager for RasGas
projects. “In December 2003, Ras Laffan instructed J. Ray
to proceed with the engineering and fabrication of a four-pile jacket
for the wellhead platform to be installed 100km offshore Qatar by
October 2004 to allow drilling activities to commence.”
The deck itself is scheduled for installation in the last quarter
of 2006. Once in place, it will ultimately handle a production of
1,200 million standard cubic feet of produced fluids (gas condensate
and water) per day for supply to the onshore plant at Ras Laffan.
The WH9 facility will be similar to the three wellhead platforms
already engineered, constructed and installed by J. Ray McDermott
under the RasGas Expansion Project. The first platform, WH7, was
successfully mechanically completed and handed over to the customer
in January 2004 – including 94km offshore and 5km onshore
38” pipeline, which was installed from the platform to Ras
Laffan onshore facilities.
The other two platforms, WH4 and WH5, are currently being fabricated
at J. Ray’s Jebel Ali yard, and are scheduled to be installed
during 2005. In addition, the associated WH4 105km 38” pipeline
from the platform to onshore facilities is currently scheduled for
installation during the summer of 2004, ten months ahead of schedule.
"We have put a lot emphasis on developing a good, flexible
concept, with respect to both the design of these platforms and
the execution of the projects themselves," said Mitchell. "In
this way, we have been able to offer a competitive repeat turnkey
solution that meets RasGas’s expectations for efficient, safe,
cost-effective project execution."
“Safety rates highly at J. Ray McDermott,” continued
Mitchell. “To date, we have achieved over 3.5 million man-hours
on the RasGas Expansion Project without a single “lost-time”
incident – an excellent achievement of which we are proud.”
RasGas (II) is a joint venture company between Qatar Petroleum
(QP) and ExxonMobil RasGas Inc., an affiliate of ExxonMobil corporation.
For more information see http://www.jraymcdermott.com/
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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