HHI lands Barzan offshore components

Jan. 12, 2011
Hyundai Heavy Industries has a letter of award for a $900 million contract for to supply offshore facilities for Qatar’s Barzan Gas project.

Offshore staff

ULSAN, South Korea -- Hyundai Heavy Industries has a letter of award for a $900 million contract for to supply offshore facilities for Qatar’s Barzan Gas project.

The project, 80 km (49.7 mi) northeast of Ras Laffan Industrial City, will involve new onshore and offshore gas-processing facilities. The operator is RasGas Co., the joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil.

As EPC contractor, Hyundai will perform engineering, fabrication, transportation, installation, and commissioning of three wellhead platforms, 200 km (124 mi) of subsea pipelines and 100 km (62 mi) of subsea cables by end-2013.

Barzan is designed to deliver 1.9 MMcf/d of gas and is due onstream in 2014.

01/12/2011