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Export Pipeline

The subsea Export Pipeline connects Dolphin’s Ras Laffan Gas Processing Plant in Qatar with the company’s Receiving Facilities at Taweelah, Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. This 48-inch, 364-kilometer pipeline is the largest and longest submarine gas pipeline in the Middle East and is submerged to a maximum depth of 50 meters.

The route of the Export Pipeline was plotted and designed in 2003, so as to avoid seabird nesting colonies, turtle breeding grounds and major coral formations.

The contract for pipeline supply was awarded to Mitsui of Japan in 2004. Between 2004 and 2006 more than 440,000 tons of steel were shipped to Qatar for this pipeline and the twin sealines. Individual pipe lengths were then coated, internally and externally, before they were laid offshore in a continuous assembly and submersion operation. Carried out by contractor Saipem, this was completed in August 2006.

The Export Pipeline carries a throughput of 2 billion standard cubic feet a day (scf/day) of refined methane gas from Qatar. Its design capacity is 3.2 billion scf/day. Usage of the additional 1.2 billion scf/day capacity is subject to a future agreement between Dolphin Energy and the Government of Qatar.