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Dolphin Energy Awards Contract To Install Offshore Production Sea line
Successful Bidder, SAIPEM of Italy, will Construct Key Connections with Processing Plant
Dolphin Energy Limited today named the successful bidder for its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) sealines award as Saipem of Italy.
The award covers the engineering, procurement and installation of two 36-inch diameter concrete-coated sealines offshore north east Qatar, for the forthcoming Dolphin Project. Its value is in excess of $115 million. Saipem was also recently awarded the EPC contract for the main Export Pipeline.
When commissioned in 2006, the sealines will transport Dolphin’s production stream of unprocessed natural gas and hydrocarbon liquids some 80 kilometers from its two offshore platforms in the North Field – for delivery to the company’s processing plant in Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City.
Thereafter, dry gas will be transported by the main Export Pipeline to Dolphin’s receiving facilities at Taweelah in the UAE.
The line pipe for both the sealines and the Export Pipeline will be supplied by Mitsui & Company Limited of Japan, further to a mandate and procurement agreements issued in 2003.
On January 12, 2004, Dolphin Energy announced the award of its initial Dolphin Project contracts – for construction of the Ras Laffan processing plant, supply of its compression units and construction of two offshore production platforms respectively. The sealines will provide the necessary link between them.
The EPC award to Saipem was based on Dolphin’s established bid evaluation procedure, and was endorsed by the joint Qatar Petroleum / Dolphin Energy Tender Committee.
Dolphin Energy Limited
Dolphin Energy Limited was created to develop substantial energy projects throughout the GCC. Its objective is to create long-term economic wealth and new business opportunities for GCC citizens, far into the future. Dolphin Energy’s major strategic initiative, the Dolphin Project, involves the production and processing of natural gas from Qatar’s North Field, and transportation of the dry gas by sub-sea pipeline across joint UAE-Qatari waters to the UAE, beginning in 2006.
Dolphin Energy’s first initiative, the Al Ain to Fujairah Pipeline, came on stream in January 2004.The pipeline supplies the Fujairah Water and Power Plant on the UAE’s East Coast – initially with natural gas from Oman, and subsequently with Dolphin gas from Qatar. In May 2005, Dolphin began to supply natural gas to the UAE Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. The gas is being delivered via a tie-in near Qidfa between Dolphin’s Al Ain - Fujairah pipeline and the existing Emarat gas pipeline network.
Dolphin Energy is owned 51 percent by Mubadala Development Company, on behalf of the Government of Abu Dhabi – and 24.5 percent each by Total of France and Occidental Petroleum of the USA.
Detailed information about Dolphin Energy can be found on www.dolphinenergy.com
For further information contact:
Mirna Hijazi
Corporate Communications Manager
Tel +971 2 6995500
Fax +971 2 6995578