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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).
Shell is the operator of the Manatee field with a 100 percent working interest under the renegotiated sub-block Block 6d Production Sharing Contract (PSC). According to a regulatory submission from the company cited by the association, the recovered hydrocarbons from Manatee would be delivered by drilling eight new development wells from a new, unmanned offshore platform from which gas and condensate would be delivered to shore via a new gas pipeline. The hydrocarbons would be processed at National Gas Company’s (NGC) existing Beachfield Facility and delivered for sale to both export and domestic markets.
The company seeks to drill 8 new horizontal, open-hole gravel packed wells using a Class 1 jack-up rig. Shell plans to install and commission a new offshore platform. The platform, expected to be unmanned and controlled from shore via a new fiber-optic cable, will incorporate a 12-slot well-bay and a helideck.
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.
Decommissioning Project from Santos
Earlier in the month, McDermott said it won a “sizeable” engineering, procurement, removal and disposal contract from Santos Ltd. The offshore decommissioning award is for the full removal and disposal of the Campbell platform structure, which is part of the Varanus Island Hub offshore infrastructure in Western Australia. McDermott defines a sizeable contract as between $1 million and $50M million.
Under the contract scope, McDermott will provide project management and engineering services for the removal and transportation of the platform topsides, substructure and associated items to an onshore facility, where it will be dismantled and disposed of, according to an earlier news release.
“Our successful, proven track record of project delivery spans the entire energy value chain”, Swaminathan said. “This decommissioning award reflects the commitment we share with Santos to timely, safe, and environmentally responsible removal of infrastructure at the end of its operational life cycle. We look forward to continuing to be part of delivering their sustainability commitments while also contributing to the circular economy for a lower carbon future”.
McDermott said the decommissioning of the Campbell platform was its fourth decommissioning project in Australia in the last two years.
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