McDermott International has announced to self-perform air and saturation diving on two major oil and gas projects in Africa, the Americas and Europe region
The company has received a contract to remove and replace a single 24 inch subsea hose string to a single buoy mooring (SBM) and pipeline end manifold (PLEM) for the SAPREF crude oil refinery in southern Africa.
Southern Africa’s largest crude oil refinery operated is located about 2.5km off the coast of Durban, South Africa.
The company will conduct a scheduled critical saturation and air diving campaign in early May from the multi-purpose vessel, Amazon, which will function as a diving support vessel for the project.
Commenting on the southern Africa’s oil refinery project, Scott Munro, vice-president of McDermott for Americas, Europe and Africa, said, “While we progress the project to upgrade the Amazon to support the ultra-deepwater market with planned modifications to its pipelay system, the SAPREF project was a great opportunity to use the versatility of the Amazon and our diving teams to meet a critical need for the South African refinery.”
“The project marks an operational return to Africa for McDermott,” said the company.
The company is one of the front-runners in Africa’s oil and gas sector. In March 2018, British oil major BP awarded a contract for the Tortue/Ahmeyim offshore gas project to McDermott International Inc and Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE).
Recently, McDermott rejected the UK-based subsea engineering company Subsea 7’s offer to acquire its entire issued share capital for US$7 per share.
McDermott has also announced to support the pipeline installation and pre-commissioning work for the BP Trinidad & Tobago, LLC (bpTT) Angelin project, located 40km off the east coast of Trinidad and Tobago.
