Houston, Texas-based McDermott has won an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract from QatarEnergy LNG for the North Field South (NFS) Offshore Pipelines and Cables Project.

The new contract is in addition to the awards McDermott secured earlier for the NFS Pipelines FEED, the NFS Jackets EPCI, and the NFXP Topsides and Pipelines which included the NFS Topsides.

The NFS infrastructure is designed to supply feed gas for two additional LNG trains and is part of the North Field Expansion Project (NFXP), which will help increase Qatar’s total LNG production to 142 million tonnes per annum, from 77 mtpa.

"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," says Neil Gunnion, McDermott's Qatar country manager and vice president for operations. The company’s main execution centre is in Doha while its fabrication facility is in Ras Laffan.

The contract comprises the EPCI for almost 250 kilometres 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.

McDermott is a fully integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. It operates in 54 countries, with more than 30,000 employees.