North Oil Co. has let a front-end engineering design contract to McDermott International for the Ruya development, previously referred to as Al-Shaheen Phase 3-Batch 1, offshore Qatar. The award follows successful completion of the pre-FEED contract for work at the giant Al-Shaheen oil field, the service provider said in a release June 2.
Work will be led from McDermott’s Doha operating center and will be supported by its Chennai engineering office.
The scope of the contract comprises developing FEED studies and deliverables suitable for an engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning (EPCIC) project. This includes creating technical output data (FEED data), providing EPCIC schedule and cost estimates, and developing an early work plan for the brownfield scope with necessary site surveys, the service provider said.
NOC is a combine held 70% by Qatar Petroleum and 30% by TotalEnergies (OGJ Online, July 11, 2017).
