MANAMA, 28 December 2003 — State-controlled Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd., or Gasco, has sent out international tenders for a third phase of natural gas development to expand the processing capacity at the Habshan plant, Dubai-based Gulf News newspaper reported yesterday.
The tenders are for a lump-sum contract for engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and start-up work for its onshore gas-development project at Habshan, the newspaper said. Qualified bidders include Bechtel Group Inc., Halliburton Co.’s Kellogg Brown & Root unit, Technip SA of France, Italy’s Snamprogetti and Japan’s Chiyoda Co. and JGC Corp., it said.
The third phase of the program aims to increase the capacity of Bab Thamama-F field to produce additional 1.2 billion standard cubic feet a day of natural gas, as well as building gas-reinjecting facilities for recycling gas into the Thamama reservoir.
The project also is expected to yield an additional 130,000 barrels a day of condensate and 11,800 tons a day of natural gas liquids, the newspaper said.
Gasco said the project feasibility study was carried out by the US Fluor Corp. in 2000-2001. The front-end engineering design for the overall project was developed by Bechtel in 2002-2003 with Foster Wheeler Ltd. as project-management consultant.
The package for onshore gas-gathering and injection and condensate storage tanks, associated with the third phase project, will be released by Abu Dhabi Co. for onshore operations and Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Co., respectively, Gasco said, according to the newspaper.
Gasco is the operating company in Abu Dhabi responsible for processing associate and nonassociate gas from onshore oil production. The company began as a joint venture incorporated in 1978 with ownership shared between Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., Total SA, Shell Abu Dhabi and Partex.
