Page 10 - MEOG Week 15 2021

MEOG PROJECTS & COMPANIES MEOG

Penspen wins more Abu Dhabi tie-in work

UAE UK-BASED Penspen was this week awarded a – were retendered late last year. Packages A and
four-year contract for the procurement and con- B on the so-called South East Tie-Ins scheme
struction (PC) of flowlines and wellhead installa- were awarded to Al-Asab and Pakistan’s Descon
tions for 51 wells in the UAE. respectively in late 2015.
The contract was awarded by Oman’s Galfar The delay is assumed to have been caused
Engineering & Contracting Emirates for work partly by the unfolding of development plans at
on the Shah, Qusahwira and Mender oilfields the South East fields – with contracts awarded
covered by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co.’s in the interim for expansions at Mender and
ADNOC Onshore concession. Qusawira.
Penspen’s contract covers the design and For Penspen, it is the second contract it has
detailed engineering of different types of wells, received from Galfar in six months having won
including gas lift, water alternating gas (WAG), a $2.47mn deal covering tie-in work for 75 wells
electrical submersible pump (ESP), water injec- at the Haliba oilfield, which is operated by the
tion and water disposal wells. Al Dhafra Petroleum joint venture between
It will also work with Galfar on “project ADNOC, Korea National Oil Co. (KNOC) and
delivery to ensure that time, quality and budget fellow Korean firm GS Energy.
is met by June 2025”. The overall project aims to With the partners achieving first oil from the
increase oil production at the fields. field in mid-2019, Haliba is expected to reach a
Together with Asab and Sahil, they comprise production capacity of 60,000 barrels per day
ADNOC Onshore’s South East Asset (SEA) (bpd) by 2023 from 1.1bn barrels of original oil
operating area. in place (OOIP)
In 2018, the state firm awarded two long-de- Meanwhile, in October Galfar was awarded
layed contracts – each worth in excess of $150mn a five-year $71mn PC job by ADNOC for flow-
– for tie-in work at the five fields. lines and wellhead installations at Asab and Sahil
The local Al-Asab Contracting won so-called fields as well as a 30-month, $84mn engineer-
package C, covering tie-ins at the Asab and ing, procurement and construction (EPC) con-
Suhail fields, while Galfar picked up package D, tract for the creation of a new bypass system to
calling for tie-ins at Shah, Qusawira and Mender. provide critical backup for ADNOC Onshore’s
The contracts were first tendered in mid- existing crude receiving stations at the Jebel
2016 but – after bid submissions in early 2017 Dhanna and Fujairah export terminals.™

P10 www. NEWSBASE .com Week 15 14•April•2021