Ras Laffan LNG awards contract for wellhead platform jacket off Qatar

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Oct. 26 -- Ras Laffan LNG Co. Ltd. (II) has awarded J. Ray McDermott Eastern Hemisphere Ltd. a contract to install an additional wellhead platform jacket, WH8, off Qatar for the RasGas Expansion field development. McDermott will provide full engineering, procurement, fabrication, and installation of the 12-slot jacket and associated facilities.

Engineering and procurement have begun. The company's Jebel Ali yard in Dubai will fabricate the jacket, which a McDermott installation vessel will install in third quarter 2005.

The contract is the sixth jacket awarded McDermott under the RasGas Expansion project (OGJ Online, July 14, 2004).