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Dolphin Energy Awards Contract For Receiving Facilities At Taweelah
Successful Bidder, Technip/Al Jaber, will Construct Receiving Facility and Associated Pipelines
Dolphin Energy Limited today announced that the Technip (Abu Dhabi) & Al Jaber Energy Services Consortium of the UAE is the successful bidder for its new Taweelah Gas Receiving Facility and associated pipelines in Abu Dhabi.
The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) award is for building the onshore receiving facilities at Taweelah for Dolphin Energy’s forthcoming natural gas Export Pipeline from Qatar. The contract’s value is in excess of $62 million.
The facilities will be built adjacent to the existing Taweelah Power Station. They will initially comprise three parallel gas receiving trains & associated equipment, metering facilities, control buildings & warehouse – plus additional interconnecting pipelines to the Taweelah Power Stations and to the existing Maqta-Jebel Ali Pipeline.
Other pre-qualified bidders were Dodsal Pte, JFE Engineering, National Petroleum Construction Company, Petrofac International, Technimont and Willbross Middle East/Al Hussam Joint Venture.
When the Dolphin Project is commissioned in 2006, refined Dolphin gas from Qatar will flow through the 48 inch, 370 kilometer Export Pipeline from Ras Laffan to Taweelah in Abu Dhabi, where its flow will be monitored and controlled for distribution to customers in the UAE and Oman. Initial flow will be an average 2 billion standard cubic feet per day.
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. On April 17, EPC awards were made for the twin sealines in Qatari waters, and for the construction of the Export Pipeline itself.
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