McDermott Sends New Abkatun Platform to Field
McDermott International said November 15 it has sent the 15,000-metric ton PB-Abkatun-A2 platform to Mexico’s Bay of Campeche, where it will be installed this month to support oil and gas production by Mexico’s state-owned Pemex (image below).
Commissioning is expected to be completed in February 2019, adding some 150mn ft3/day of natural gas productive capacity and 220,000 b/d of crude oil productive capacity to Pemex’s Abkatun Pol Chuc complex. The platform will sit in 124 ft (38 m) of water.
The A2 platform, built at McDermott’s Altamira fabrication yard in Tamaulipas province, Mexico, is the largest completed to date by McDermott for Pemex. Its ‘sail-away’ is the latest milestone in a $454mn engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (EPCIC) contract awarded by Pemex in June 2016.
The platform is comprised of a main jacket, deck, four tripod jackets and four bridges, each about 100 m in length. Two tripods will be used as part of the flare system, while the other two tripods will support bridges connecting the new platform to the existing production complex.
