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e remainder of the total 40% international shareholding in the Ghasha concession was awarded that month to Italy’s Eni with 25% and Germany’s Wintershall with 10%.
tender docs
Also last week, upstream quoted sources as say- ing that ADNOC had issued tender documents to contractors for $2bn worth of infrastructure and compression platforms for the sour gas project.
The Hail & Ghasha Package 1 is said to include o shore drill centres, subsea pipelines and compression platforms, as well as 400km of subsea pipelines and 212km of subsea cables.
Technical bids were submitted in late March for two engineering, procurement and construc- tion (EPC) contracts tendered earlier this year for o shore and onshore work on the rst devel- opment project to be carried out at the Ghasha Concession.
e block covers an area in the north-west said to contain hundreds of billion cubic metres of gas. e exploitation of Dalma eld is envis- aged generating production of 3.1-3.6 bcm per year of gas by early next decade.
For the onshore package, o ers were reported to have been received from China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corp., South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction, Petrofac, Saipem with Athens-based Consol- idated Contractors Co. (CCC), and Canada’s SNC Lavalin with the local Target Engineering.
e contract includes new gas dehydration and condensate treatment units, inlet facilities, a
gas booster and other associated infrastructure at Arzanah Island.
Bidders for the o shore contract are thought to include McDermott, NPCC, Petrofac, Saipem and the local Valentine Maritime, for a deal cov- ering three new wellhead platforms and the modi cation of existing topsides plus pipelines and cabling.
uS-based KBR is the project management consultant and TechnipFMC is the front-end engineering and design (FEED) contractor.
The joint development of the Ghasha and Hail elds is anticipated to produce 10.3 bcm per year of gas. KBR is again the PMC contrac- tor, while compatriot Bechtel is carrying out the FEED.
ose believed to have received the bid doc- uments include Greece’s Archirodon, India’s Larsen & Toubro, the uS’ McDermott, Abu Dhabi government-affiliated National Petro- leum Construction Co. (NPCC), the uK’s Pet- rofac, Rosetti Marino and Saipem, both Italian, and uK-based TechnipFMC.
Early contracts on the scheme were awarded last year under a process overseen by Oxy and OMV – with the uS’ KBR winning the PMC, TechnipFMC selected for the FEED and NPCC let an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) job covering four well- head jackets to enable initial drilling work to proceed. e latest awards are further evidence of ADNOC’s emphasis on developing the con- cessions it has nalised over the past 18 months and EPC contractors are sure to be queuing up for more work.
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