DUBAI- Qatar Petroleum awarded McDermott Middle East Inc. an engineering and design contract for pipelines and other facilities in the project to expand the offshore North Field, the energy firm said on Monday.

The contract is a front end engineering design (FEED) contract, the Qatari firm said in an emailed statement.

(Reporting by Maher Chmaytelli Editing by Edmund Blair) ((maher.chmaytelli@thomsonreuters.com;))