J Ray To Build Deck Modules For Saudi Aramco
J Ray McDermott (J Ray) announced on 15 August that one of its subsidiaries had won a contract from Saudi Aramco to supply 16 production deck modules (PDMs) for Saudi Arabia’s offshore fields. The PDMs are part of Saudi Aramco’s program to increase offshore production capacity. In December 2005 the company was awarded a contract by Saudi Aramco to build the corresponding 16 jackets, which once installed will support the PMDs. J Ray will carry out construction engineering, partial procurement, and fabrication of the modules at the company’s Jebel Ali yard. First steel will be cut for the modules (with each module weighing an average of 450 tons) in October 2006 while procurement and engineering are already under way, said J Ray. The first two decks are scheduled for installation by mid-2007, followed by 10 decks by the end of October 2007, and with the remaining four decks scheduled for installation by mid-2008. In April, Saudi Aramco signed two contracts with J Ray subsidiaries to detail design, procure, fabricate, transport and install offshore facilities as part of efforts to maintain oil production levels at the offshore Zuluf and Safaniyah oilfields (MEES, 10 April).
