Dolphin
Energy awards contract to install offshore production sealines
Posted: 17 April 2004
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
pipeline 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.
Dolphin Energy is owned 51 percent by Mubadala Investment Company,
on behalf of the Government of Abu Dhabi – and 24.5 percent
each by Total of France and Occidental Petroleum of the USA.
For more information see www.dolphinenergy.com.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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