MCDERMOTT
30 every country is different ,” he explains . “ And that brings various challenges and opportunities . For example , in India , we ’ re currently executing two subsea projects on the east coast — one for Reliance Industries , the other for ONGC ( Oil and Natural Gas Corporation ). We ’ re designing the infrastructure and hardware for the seabed to enable us to pipe gas and hydrocarbons from the wellhead to the onshore terminal .”
In addition , McDermott is conducting a tank-building project in a remote area of the Philippines , a significant offshore platform project in Vietnam , and a further LNG endeavour , known as Ichthys , with INPEX in Australia . “ We have a wide range and variety of works that we ’ re currently executing ,” Lowman says . “ In Asia , we also support the rest of our global operations in terms of engineering . We have a term for it , MOPEX , the multi-operational project execution model .” He offers a hypothetical example whereby a project for the North Sea would be executed in Asia , engineered out of the firm ’ s Kuala Lumpur office , supported by its Indian offices and manufactured at McDermott ’ s fabrication facility in Batam , Indonesia . “ That ’ s
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