McDermott awarded fast-track fabrication contract in East Java

By Romel S. Gurky

US engineering and construction firm McDermott International Inc. (McDermott) announced Tuesday that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded a fast-track fabrication contract by PC Ketapang II Ltd., a subsidiary of Malaysia?s PETRONAS for the BTJT-A Jacket as part of the Bukit Tua Development Project in the Ketapang block of East Java. The contract is included in McDermott?s second quarter 2014 backlog.

?The timing of delivery for this fast-track project is critical,? said Hugh Cuthbertson, McDermott Vice President and General Manager for Asia Pacific, in a press release. ?We have already commenced fabrication activities as the jacket must be completed for installation before the start of the monsoon season.?

McDermott said it will fabricate the four-leg 1,100-ton wellhead jacket, from the Batam Island fabrication facility in Indonesia. The project is expected to be complete by mid-November 2014.

McDermott fabrication facility on Batam Island serves both traditional and floating offshore construction and related subsea infrastructure, and the growing onshore LNG module fabrication markets

Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak