Saudi Aramco has awarded the US’ McDermott two contracts for offshore oil and gas work in the Gulf.

The US contractor was awarded a package at the non-associated Karan gas field located off the coast of Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. The scope of the contract includes the fabrication and installation of a wellhead platform, auxiliary platform, jacket and link bridge and theinstallation of flowlines and fibre optic cables.

The second contract covers the procurement, fabrication and installation of pipelines and subsea tie-ins at the Safaniya and Zuluf offshore fields that are also off the coast of the Eastern Province.

The engineering and project management will be carried out at McDermott’s Al-Khobar office in the kingdom with fabrication being conducted at the company’s Jebel Ali facility in Dubai.