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ADNOC dishes out contracts for

infrastructure upgrades

UAE UAE state oil firm Abu Dhabi National Oil of $135mn. Their capacity will be raised by more
Co. (ADNOC) has awarded contracts worth than 30%. Target’s $110mn contract will see it
$245mn to two companies for the upgrade of upgrade the receiving terminals. This will ena-
an oil pipeline and receiving facilities at its Jebel ble ADNOC to use part of its existing facilities
Dhanna import terminal. to import Upper Zakum from offshore as well
The revamp will enable the western terminal as other grades.
to handle oil grades other than the country’s flag- “The ability to import other grades of crude
ship Murban, and also increase its capacity. This at Jebel Dhanna following the completion of the
will mean the terminal is able to receive Upper project will provide ADNOC greater flexibility,
Zakum and other oil grades for delivery to the highlighting how the company is extracting
Ruwais oil refining complex. value from every barrel of crude it produces,”
China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering ADNOC said. “The terminal was originally
(CPPE) and Abu Dhabi-based Target Engineer- conceived and operated as a Murban crude oil
ing Construction have received engineering, export facility since its inception in the 1960s.”
procurement and construction (EPC) contracts The terminal will deliver crude to the 840,000
with a 30-month duration for work, ADNOC barrel per day (bpd) Ruwais Refinery West pro-
said on September 7. ject 12 km east, which forms part of the Ruwais
CPPC will replace the two oil lines delivering refining and petrochemical complex. Ruwais is
Murban from oilfields at Bab, Bu Hasa, North undergoing an expansion that will add 600,000
East Bab and South East to the terminal, at a cost bpd to its capacity by 2025. ™

Sonatrach hires contractors

for pipe work

ALGERIA ALGERIA’S Sonatrach has handed out a raft of cathodic protection systems on pipeline from
contracts for the construction for gas pipelines, Hassi R’Mel to Arzew.
The pipe contracts are LNG equipment supply and other projects. Sonatrach has also hired Air Products to pro-
worth $520mn. The national oil company (NOC) said on Sep- vide four of its MCR cryogenic heat exchangers
tember 8 it had awarded deals to domestic firms for the GL1Z LNG export plant in Arzew, the US
ENGCB, Sarpi, ENGTP, RNSC, Kanaghaz and company said on September 9. The exchangers,
Cosider valued at DZD67bn ($520mn). They each with a production capacity of 1.3mn tonnes
are for the construction of 700 km of pipelines per year (tpy), will replace four older units Air
and networks to ship gas from fields in Algeria’s Products fitted in the late 1970s.
south-west to markets, it said. The pipelines will The new models will serve as part of Air Prod-
be capable of carrying 11mn cubic metres per ucts’ proprietary AP-C3MR propane pre-cooled
day of supplies by 2022. mixed refrigerant liquefaction process at the
The work will create 3,000 jobs, Sonatrach multi-train facility. Installing them will reduce
said, noting its support for local content use. maintenance costs and make gas use more effi-
Sonatrach also said it had enlisted Sarpi and cient, while supporting production levels.
Safir Group to work on development plans for GL1Z is one of three LNG export plants in
oilfields to the west of Touat. These fields will Arzew and can produce up to 7.9mn tpy of the
supply 6,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil to the super-cooled gas. The other two facilities, GL2Z
Adrar oil refinery by 2022. and GL3Z, have export capacities of 8.2mn tpy
Another contract was awarded to Cosider for and 4.7mn tpy.
work on fire detection and anti-fire networks at Sonatrach has another 4.5mn tpy terminal in
its oil and gas facilities in Arzew. ENAC has also Skikda, bringing Algeria’s overall export capacity
been picked to supply, install and commission to 25mn tpy. ™

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