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Iraq seeks bids for Jordan oil pipeline
IRAQ
The $5bn pipeline will carry 1mn bpd of oil.
IRAQ’S Ministry of Oil (MoO) has invited bids to carry out preliminary work to build a major oil pipeline to Jordan after a protracted process that has seen the multi-billion dollar conduit stall amid political and civil unrest.
The $5bn pipeline will carry an estimated 1mn barrels per day (bpd) of crude from Basra in Iraq’s prolific southern region of the same name to the port of Aqaba on the Red Sea, thus providing a much sought-after route to market for Baghdad.
The move builds upon a warming of relations begun in 2018 that culminated in the resumption of oil cargoes from Iraq to Jordan last year, when 10,000 bpd began being trucked across their shared border. to Jordan’s Zarqa Refinery.
The first phase will be built on the Iraqi side, stretching 700km from Rumaila to Haditha. This will have a capacity of 2.25mn bpd. This will be constructed on an engineering, procurement, con- struction and financing (EPCF) contract model.
The second phase will run 900km from Haditha, crossing the border and piping the
aforementioned 1mn bpd on to Aqaba and will be built on a build-own-operate-transfer (BOOT) model.
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister for Energy and Minister of Oil Thamir al-Ghadhban said that the ministry had earlier formed a team to pre- pare legal contracts, address financial issues and oversee technical standards for implementing the project.
Ghadhban noted that the ministry had set May 2020 as the final date to receive offers for the project from the qualified companies and to select the winners before the end of 2020.
After meeting with Ghadhban in February, Jordan’s energy minister, Hala Zawati, spoke of the importance of the project, noting that an agreement would be signed between the two countries allowing for construction of the pipe- line to begin.
She also noted that the governments had agreed that the Jordan would have the right to buy 150,000 barrels of oil transferred through the pipeline.™
REFINING
Syria’s Homs refinery hit by rockets
Rockets were fired overnight at Syria’s main Homs refinery and two gas units causing minor damage and disrupting production, oil officials said on December 21, according to Reuters, calling the incident a “terrorist attack”.
Fires were extinguished after several hours and maintenance engineers had begun repair work, the refinery head, Haitham Musawkar, was quoted as saying on state media.
The refinery, located west of Homs, is one of two main refineries covering most domestic demand for diesel, heating fuel, gasoline and other products, industry experts say.
December 21 2019
COOEC-Fluor completes module programme for Al-
NEWS IN BRIEF
Zour project
Fluor Corp. has announced that its joint venture, COOEC-Fluor Heavy Industries, Co., Ltd (COOEC-Fluor) fabrication yard in Zhuhai, China, has safely completed the entire module programme for the Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Co. (KIPIC) Al-Zour project in Kuwait.
“The COOEC-Fluor yard completed the modular program over a period of 24 months from the start of steel fabrication to load out of the last modules,” said Chris Vertanness, Vice President and Director of Operations
at the yard. “The COOEC-Fluor team has accomplished numerous fabrication and logistics milestones on this project working closely with the Fluor-led joint venture team, and I look forward to continuing to show the world what our yard can do.”
COOEC-Fluor delivered 188 modules
in 20 separate shipments with a combined weight of 65 000 tonnes. In addition, the yard fabricated more than 95 000 pipe spools of carbon, alloy and stainless steel pipe which will be installed by the project team at the site.
Leveraging COOEC-Fluor for fabrication and modular assembly was a key component
in the KIPIC project’s overall execution strategy. By performing large-scale modularisation at the fabrication yard, field labour at the project site was significantly reduced resulting in greater cost efficiency, enhanced safety performance, and minimised strain on the local labour market.
The project was executed with a relentless focus on health, safety and environmental performance, achieving a total case incident rate of 0.06 and a lost-time injury rate of 0.02.
The final module shipment of 8600 tonnes was shipped from COOEC-Fluor and recently arrived at the project site in Kuwait.
Fluor is leading a joint venture that
is working to deliver two engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction packages for key process support units, utilities and infrastructure for the Al-Zour refinery project in Kuwait. The new complex is expected to process up to 615,000 barrels per day of oil once operational.
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