McDermott to design, install wellhead decks for Maersk Oil Qatar

Dec. 4, 2006
Maersk Oil Qatar has contracted J. Ray McDermott, S.A. to engineer, procure, construct, and install two wellhead decks for the Block 5 Field Development Plan 2005 Project.

Offshore Staff

JEBEL ALI, Dubai -- Maersk Oil Qatar has contracted J. Ray McDermott, S.A. to engineer, procure, construct, and install two wellhead decks for the Block 5 Field Development Plan 2005 Project.

The two decks have a combined weight in excess of 4,800 metric tons (5,291 tons) and will be designed at J. Ray's Houston engineering office as well as at its regional headquarters in Jebel Ali, Dubai, where the structures will be fabricated in 2007 and installed in 2008.

"We are pleased to be associated with Maersk on this key field development project for Qatar's expanding oil and gas market," said Bob Deason, president and chief operating officer of McDermott.

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