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    McDermott Wins Italian Job in Mexico

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The wellhead platform will be unmanned and liquids will be piped to a floating production, storage and offtake vessel.

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McDermott Wins Italian Job in Mexico

McDermott has won the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction of Eni's wellhead platform one (WHP1) in the Amoca field, 30km offshore Mexico, it said April 30. The four-deck topsides will have two main decks and weigh about 2,653 metric tons.

The jacket and piles are scheduled to be ready for loadout by the end of the fourth quarter 2019 while the deck is expected to be ready for loadout by the end of the second quarter 2020, the US engineer said.

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McDermott has an engineering facility in Altamira, Mexico, where work is expected to begin immediately, and the contract will be reflected in McDermott's second quarter 2019 backlog.

The Amoca WHP1 is an unmanned oil and gas production facility that includes eight producer wells and four water injection wells. WHP1 will be installed in the Gulf of Mexico, Contract Block. Fluids will be exported to a floating production, storage and offloading vessel.