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Map showing the
concessions comprising
ADNOC Offshore

ADNOC was also recently reported to have The joint development of the Ghasha and
issued tender documents to contractors for $2bn Hail fields is anticipated to produce 10.3 bcm
worth of infrastructure and compression plat- per year of gas. KBR is again the PMC contrac-
forms for the sour gas project. tor, while compatriot Bechtel is carrying out the
The Hail & Ghasha Package 1 is said to FEED.
include offshore drill centres, subsea pipelines Those believed to have received the bid doc-
and compression platforms, as well as 400km uments include Greece’s Archirodon, India’s
of subsea pipelines and 212km of subsea cables. Larsen & Toubro, the US’ McDermott, Abu
Technical bids were submitted in late March Dhabi government-affiliated National Petro-
for two engineering, procurement and construc- leum Construction Co. (NPCC), the UK’s Pet-
tion (EPC) contracts tendered earlier this year rofac, Rosetti Marino and Saipem, both Italian,
for offshore and onshore work on the first devel- and UK-based TechnipFMC.
opment project to be carried out at the Ghasha Early contracts on the scheme were awarded
Concession. last year under a process overseen by Oxy and
The block covers an area in the north-west OMV – with the US’ KBR winning the PMC,
said to contain hundreds of billion cubic metres TechnipFMC selected for the FEED and NPCC
of gas. The exploitation of Dalma field is envis- let an engineering, procurement, construction
aged generating production of 3.1-3.6 bcm per and installation (EPCI) job covering four well-
year of gas by early next decade. head jackets to enable initial drilling work to
For the onshore package, offers were reported proceed.
to have been received from China Petroleum In October last year, ADNOC awarded a 5%
Engineering & Construction Corp., South stake in the Ghasha concession to Russian major
Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction, Lukoil. The Abu Dhabi government was also a
Petrofac, Saipem with Athens-based Consol- signatory of the deal, which pertains to a large
idated Contractors Co. (CCC), and Canada’s area off the emirate’s north-west coast encom-
SNC Lavalin with the local Target Engineering. passing the Dalma, Ghasha, Hail, Mubarraz,
The contract includes new gas dehydration Nasr and Satah al-Razboot (SARB) fields.
and condensate treatment units, inlet facilities, a Meanwhile, ADNOC, Lukoil and the Russian
gas booster and other associated infrastructure Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) signed a frame-
at Arzanah Island. work deal focussed on potential future collabo-
Bidders for the offshore contract are thought ration on the Ghasha concession.
to include McDermott, NPCC, Petrofac, Saipem The remainder of the total 40% international
and the local Valentine Maritime, for a deal cov- shareholding in the concession is held by Italy’s
ering three new wellhead platforms and the Eni with 25%, Germany’s Wintershall with 10%
modification of existing topsides plus pipelines and Abu Dhabi government-affiliated and Vien-
and cabling. na-based OMV with 5%. MEOG understands
US-based KBR is the project management from sources close to Lukoil that the Russian
consultant and TechnipFMC is the front-end firm expects contracting progress before the end
engineering and design (FEED) contractor. of 2020.™

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