Projects

McDermott International, Inc. has announced that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Exxon Mobil Corporation for its Julia development.

Oceaneering International has secured a contract with ExxonMobil Corporation to supply a production control umbilical for its Julia field development located in the Gulf of Mexico Walker Ridge block. The order is for an electro-hydraulic, steel tube umbilical approximately 22.5km in length.

Wood Group Mustang has been selected by Williams to provide survey, engineering, design and program management for its Purity Pipeline projects.

BP has announced plans to invest USD 1B over the next five years at its Alaskan operations for adding two new drilling rigs to its exploration of the North Slope.

Exxon Mobil Corporation has awarded Technip a substantial lump-sum contract for the development of the Julia field located in the Walker Ridge area of the Gulf of Mexico, at a water depth of approximately 7,200 feet. The contract covers the project management, engineering, fabrication, installation and pre-commissioning of more than 48 kilometers of 10.75-inch outer diameter insulated flowlines, steel catenary risers and flowline end terminations. Technip's operating center in Houston, Texas will perform the overall project management, with detailed flowline design being completed by Genesis, Technip’s wholly-owned subsidiary.

Wood Group Mustang has been awarded a contract by The Dow Chemical Company to provide services for construction of approximately 140 miles of ethane, ethylene, propane and propylene pipelines, associated interconnections, and station modifications between Dow Texas Operations in Freeport, Texas, and facilities at Mt.

FMC Technologies has received an order from Shell for the supply of subsea equipment to support the Stones field development. Stones is an ultra-deep-water project located in the Walker Ridge area of the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 322km off the Louisiana coast in approximately 2,926m of water.

Foster Wheeler AG has acquired NorthAm Engineering S.A. DE CV, a privately held engineering company located in Monterrey, Mexico. NorthAm is one of the largest Mexican engineering and project management companies, with a track record in upstream, offshore and onshore, downstream and power projects.

The construction of a natural gas pipeline from southern Texas to central Mexico for state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, will allow gas imports from the U.S.

Chariot Oil & Gas Limited has won 100% interest and operatorship in four shallow-water exploration licences, BAR-M292, BAR-M-293, BAR-M-313 and BAR-M-314, in the Barreirinhas basin, offshore Brazil.