Gulf Island Fabrication has signed a cooperation agreement with Bechtel Oil, Gas, and Chemicals, Inc. to work together on offshore projects for the US Gulf of Mexico and abroad. Gulf Island Fabrication will offer its fabrication experience, infrastructure, and skilled labor, alongside Bechtel’s engineering, project management, and direct-hire construction capabilities, to create an EPC provider to deliver fixed, floating, and subsea facilities to the market.
“With the expansion of the demand for energy around the world, oil companies continue to expand and develop larger and more complex offshore projects, and will need reliable contractors to deliver them,” said Joe Gebara, general manager of Bechtel’s Offshore business. “Gulf Island’s record of fabricating some of the most challenging offshore structures makes the company a strong partner for Bechtel.”
Gulf Island Fabrication, based in Houston, Texas, with fabrication facilities located in Houma, Louisiana, and San Patricio County, Texas, fabricates offshore drilling and production platforms, hull and/or deck sections of floating production platforms and other specialized structures used in the development and production of offshore oil and gas reserves.
These structures include jackets and deck sections of fixed production platforms; hull and/or deck sections of floating production platforms (such as tension leg platforms (TLPs), SPARs, FPSOs, and MinDOCs), piles, wellhead protectors, subsea templates and various production, compressor and utility modules, offshore living quarters, towboats, liftboats, tanks and barges. The company also provides offshore interconnect pipe hook-up, inshore marine construction, manufacture and repair of pressure vessels, heavy lifts such as ship integration and TLP module integration, loading and offloading of jack-up drilling rigs, semi-submersible drilling rigs, TLPs, SPARs, or other similar cargo, onshore and offshore scaffolding, piping insulation services, and steel warehousing and sales.
