McDermott International Inc. has announced that a subsidiary of J. Ray McDermott S.A. has been awarded a contract by the Kellogg Joint Venture-Gorgon on behalf of Chevron Australia Pty. Ltd, operator of the Gorgon Project. Contracts of this nature are typically valued in excess of USD 150 million. More than 60 pre-assembled racks and units with an estimated combined weight of approximately 25,000tns will be constructed at J. Ray’s Batam Island fabrication facility in Indonesia. J. Ray will provide services for project management, fabrication engineering, procurement and material management, construction, commissioning assistance, quarantine compliance, loadout and seafastening. The pre-assembled structures, when completed, will be installed as part of the LNG plant currently under construction on Barrow Island, on Australia’s North West Shelf. Work is expected to start in the fourth quarter of 2010, with project completion after two years.
