McDermott Bags Contracts from Shell, Santos

The company has won an EPCI contract from Shell for the Manatee project and a decommissioning contract from Santos for the Campbell platform.

McDermott International Ltd said it has received a “limited notice to proceed” for an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract from Shell Trinidad and Tobago Limited for the Manatee gas field development project, located off the east coast of Trinidad and Tobago.

The Manatee project scope is for the design, procurement, fabrication, transportation, installation, and commissioning of a wellhead platform, offshore and onshore gas pipelines, McDermott said in a news release Tuesday. The project is still subject to a final investment decision from Shell. The contract value was not disclosed.

This award follows our successful delivery of the front-end engineering design for the Manatee gas field", McDermott's Senior Vice President for Subsea and Floating Facilities Mahesh Swaminathan said. "It is testament to McDermott's integrated EPCI capabilities built over the last 100 years around the world including many successful projects in Trinidad and Tobago. We will again deliver for Shell, building on a partnership marked by trust, collaboration, and shared success, to execute this important project”.

According to the website of the Energy Chamber of Trinidad & Tobago, Manatee is the country’s portion of the giant Loran-Manatee field that encompasses its maritime boundary with Venezuela. The combined Loran-Manatee field has an estimated resource of 10.04 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas, with 2.712 Tcf falling within the Manatee portion. The Manatee field is located around 62.1 miles (100 kilometers) off the east coast of Trinidad in an average water depth of 340 feet (105 meters).

Further, a new pipeline will be installed from platform to shore, which includes a 3 km onshore segment to deliver hydrocarbons to the existing Shell-operated but NGC-owned Beachfield Gas Facility for processing. As part of the project, the Beachfield Facility will be upgraded to increase facility throughput capacity to one billion cubic feet per day, involving the installation of a new Manatee gas separator and metering skids.