McDermott has won a new contract from QatarEnergy LNG for the North Field South (NFS) offshore pipelines and cables project.

The deal with an undisclosed value covers engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) and follows the awards secured by McDermott in 2022 for the NFS pipelines FEED, the NFS jackets EPCI, and the NFXP topsides and pipelines which included the NFS topsides.

The scope of the contract comprises EPCI of almost 250 kilometers of offshore and onshore gas pipelines connecting five new offshore wellhead platforms with two new onshore LNG trains in addition to subsea composite power and control cables.

The project will be managed from the McDermott Doha office with in-country fabrication support from the QFAB fabrication yard, and will be installed with McDermott’s inhouse marine assets.

The NFS infrastructure is designed to supply feed gas for two additional LNG trains and is part of the North Field Expansion Project, which will increase Qatar’s LNG production capacity from 77 mtpa to 142 mtpa. The expansion will be supported by a massive LNG shipbuilding initiative with more than 120 newbuilds booked across multiple yards in China and South Korea.

“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 manager in Qatar and vice president of operations.