Pipeline Decommissioning for McDermott completed by Trans Asia Pipeline Services

Trans-Asia Pipeline Services today announced that it has completed a major contract for the Decommissioning of Pipelines as Part of the Safaniya Phase-1 Upgrade crude gathering and power supply facilitieis project for McDermott Arabia Company ..

Saudi Aramco’s project to upgrade crude gathering and power supply facilities in Saudi Aramco’s Safaniya field. The infrastructure upgrade and electrification project will help sustain crude oil production to meet Saudi Aramco’s Maximum Sustainable Capacity targets for the field by 2013.

The project includes engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (“EPCI”) of a new tie-in platform (STP-20) with a 6,000-ton topside, a new electrical deck module for an existing platform (STP-18), a 53-kilometer, 42-inch trunk line, four new in-field lateral flowlines and valve skids, 156 kilometers of subsea electrical cable, and the modification and electrification of nine existing wellhead platforms.

The decommissioning scope of work involved the decruding and decommissioning of 6nos 16” pipeline segments to perform subsea tie-ins to lateral platforms.

Trans Asia Pipeline ServicesManaging Director,D.Surendranath, said: “This award marks our continued association with J Ray McDermott and strengthens our position ofor future decommissioning jobs in this region”.