Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) awarded McDermott International an engineering, procurement, construction, installation (EPCI) and pre-commissioning contract for the Ayatsil-C replacement jacket and associated deck installation, offshore Mexico.
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The Altamira fabrication yard. Image from McDermott. |
McDermott said it expects to use its in-house engineering and procurement team, Altamira fabrication yard located in Mexico, Intermac 600 transportation and launch barge, and heavy-lift Derrick Barge 50 vessel to complete the installation of all structures. The total weight of the facilities is approximately 14,800 tons.
The contract value was not disclosed by the company, but will be included in McDermott’s 2Q 2015 backlog. Completion for the project is scheduled for 4Q 2016.
The Ayatsil field is located in the Bay of Campeche, in approximately 375-405ft water depth. The fieldis the largest discovery for Pemex to date and is expected to boost production for the country by 150,000 b/d.
Pemex has said it plans to develop Ayatsil field with as many as four platforms and adjacent Tekel heavy oil field with one platform, all tied to a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel, McDermott said.
Additional plans for the field include drilling 43 wells in the project.
“This is the fourth contract McDermott has received for the Ayatsil field and follows the successful delivery of the Ayatsil-B drilling platform in 2014 and installation of the Ayatsil-A offshore jacket, deck and piles earlier this year,” said Scott Munro, McDermott’s VP for Americas, Europe and Africa. “Our integrated EPCI approach allows McDermott to provide PEMEX with a faster delivery schedule and lower-cost solution that will be locally-built and executed to our global industry-recognized quality and safety standards.”
OE spoke with McDermott’s Scott Cummins, senior VP, commercial in April, in which the Ayatsil project’s solutions and challenges were discussed.
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