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Dolphin Energy Awards Contract For Supply And Installation Of Umbilicals
Successful Bidder Nexans AS of Norway, will Manufacture and Install Umbilical Lines from Offshore Platforms to Plant at Qatar's Ras Laffan
Dolphin Energy Limited today announced that Nexans AS of Norway is the successful bidder for the manufacture, transport, installation and testing of the chemical injection/control umbilicals which will link its Qatari offshore production platforms and its Ras Laffan processing plant.
This engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) award provides for the provision of two umbilical cables which will supply corrosion inhibitor, hydrate inhibitor and diesel fuel to the two platforms. Control and communications systems will operate through inbuilt fiber optic cables. The contract’s value is in excess of $67 million.
Other pre-qualified bidders were Technip of France, Sonsub Ltd of Scotland and CTC Marine Projects Ltd of England.
When the Dolphin Project is commissioned in 2006, Dolphin gas from Qatar will flow through the 48 inch, 370 kilometer Export Pipeline from Ras Laffan to Taweelah, 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.
In January 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. In April, EPC awards were made for the twin sealines in Qatari waters, and for the construction of the Export Pipeline itself, and in November the EPC award was made for construction of the Taweelah gas receiving facilities in Abu Dhabi.
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