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with the French company, in 2013, on working in Congo Brazzaville, which has been extremely successful.
Other recent agreements include a deal in Mexico, with Royal Dutch Shell, and in Argentina.
Qatar is on the brink of expanding its LNG facilities, which will return the small Middle Eastern state to its position of pre-eminence in the liquefaction sector. While QP does not appear to need foreign investment for such
work, bringing in partners will reduce its domes- tic spending needs, allowing it to pursue other opportunities.
In late July, reports emerged in the New York times appearing to connect Qatar with a bomb- ing in Somalia’s Bosaso port, in order to advance the country’s interests against those of the United Arab Emirates. e report suggested Qatar may be helping Islamist extremists in some parts of Somalia, while providing materiel to frustrate them in others.
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NPCC and Petrofac win Belbazem FEED job
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A joint venture (JV) of UAE-based National Petroleum Construction Co. (NPCC) and the UK’s Petrofac has been awarded a design con- tract for the development of Abu Dhabi’s o - shore Belbazem oil eld.
Al Yasat Petroleum, a JV comprising Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) and China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), is develop- ing the Belbazem project, which is anticipated to achieve production of 45,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil and 0.31bn cubic metres per year of gas at a cost of $1bn.
e eld is located around 30km from the Zirku Island oil-processing hub.
Under the deal, NPCC and Petrofac will provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services and a proposal for the engineering, pro- curement, construction and installation (EPCI) of facilities. e execution of the EPCI work will be awarded separately.
the award follows the first-quarter pre- quali cation by Al Yasat of rms for the design competition. ose invited to bid were China’s
O shore Oil Engineering Co. (COOEC) with technipFMC, NPCC with Petrofac, and McDer- mott alone.
e scope of the package originally tendered as a FEED job was scaled back by Al Yasat to encompass only pre-FEED work and a competi- tion was initiated for a combined FEED and EPC contract.
US-based McDermott won the pre-FEED assignment, while in early February Middle East Oil & Gas (MEOG) reported that the three bid- ders had been selected to carry out a paid FEED study, with one of them to be chosen to proceed with the EPC phase.
e studies are anticipated to take around six months.
e scope of the EPC phase is seen compris- ing several wellhead platforms, electrical sub- mersible pumps, subsea pipelines and cabling connecting to existing processing facilities for the nearby, separately operated Satah al-Razboot (SARB) eld at Zirku Island, and gas processing and seawater injection facilities at the island.
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