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Al Ain to Fujairah Pipeline

Dolphin Energy entered the business of gas supply in January 2004, when the company commissioned the natural gas pipeline that connects Al Ain with the UAE East Coast Emirate of Fujairah.
The 24-inch, 182-km pipeline supplies gas to the power and desalination plants in Fujairah of the Union Water & Electricity Company (UWEC).

Initially all the gas being delivered by Dolphin to UWEC has come from Oman, and is delivered via a tie-in on the UAE-Oman border near Al Ain. Up to 135 million standard cubic feet of gas per day (scf/day) is being supplied by the Oman Gas Company, for between 3 1/2 and 5 years. Refined gas has therefore been flowing by land, for the very first time, from one GCC nation to another.

This Dolphin gas from Oman is the feedstock for UWEC’s major 656 MW power plant and 100 million gallons-per-day desalination plant at Qidfa – to the ultimate benefit of hundreds of farmers and scores of inland rural communities.

Dolphin Energy has also been supplying Ras Al Khaimah with up to 40 million scf/day of this gas, under a short term agreement that began in 2005.

Early in 2008 Dolphin natural gas from Qatar will reach Fujairah via Dolphin’s Eastern Gas Distribution System (EGDS) linking Taweelah and Maqta with Al Ain – and thereafter via the Al Ain Fujairah Pipeline.