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Technip-Coflexip
wins Abu Dhabi contract Posted: 6
May 2003
Technip-Coflexip , in association with the National Petroleum Construction
Company of Abu Dhabi (NPCC), has been awarded by Abu Dhabi Company
for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO), a lump sum turnkey contract worth
US $566 million for the North East Abu Dhabi (NEAD) phase 1 project.
Technip-Coflexip will be the leader of the association.
The contract, which does not require any third party financing,
will come into force immediately. The new facilities are scheduled
to come on stream during the last quarter of 2005.
The NEAD project phase 1 is aimed at increasing the oil production
capacity from two fields:
- the Al Dabb’iya field, which is considered as an offshore
field as most of the wells are located on low-lying natural and
artificial islands and interconnecting pipelines will be in shallow
water,
- the onshore Rumaitha field, located in a desert area, 50 km
south west of Abu Dhabi City.
Both fields are situated in an environmentally sensitive area.
The main facilities under Technip-Coflexip’s scope of work
include a gathering system connecting all wells through a manifolds
and flowlines network, two central processing plants to remove salt
and water and separate gas out of oil, interconnections between
the gathering system and the two central processing plants as well
as pipelines to export oil to Bab. The plants will be monitored
by a Distributed Control System and telecom system based on the
most up-to-date technologies.
Under the terms of this contract, Technip-Coflexip/NPCC will supply
engineering, procurement, construction and pre-commissioning as
well as technical assistance to ADCO for start-up. The Front End
Engineering Design for the project had been previously completed
by Technip-Coflexip under a separate contract.
This project will be carried out by Technip-Coflexip’s engineering
center based in Paris, France, with support of the Group’s
affiliate in Abu Dhabi. Technip-Coflexip’s engineering center
in Düsseldorf, Germany, will be in charge of the offshore/onshore
pipelines package, NPCC, in addition to sharing the procurement
activities, will be in charge of the construction of the control
processing plant and clusters of Al Dabb’iya field.
This new contract award adds to the remarkable list of Technip-Coflexip’s
references in Abu Dhabi including several other large turnkey projects
such as the Habshan gas complex (OGD1 and OGD2) for ADNOC, the Ruwais
gas plant expansion for GASCO and the current Ruwais refinery expansion
for TAKREER.
About Technip-Coflexip
With a workforce of about 19,000, Technip-Coflexip ranks among the
top five in the field of oil, gas and petrochemical engineering,
construction and services. Headquartered in Paris, the Group is
listed in New York (NYSE: TKP) and in Paris (Euronext: 13170).
The main engineering and business centers of Technip-Coflexip are
located in France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Norway, Finland, the
Netherlands, the United States, Brazil, Abu-Dhabi, China, India,
Malaysia and Australia. The Group has high-quality industrial and
construction facilities in France, Brazil, the UK, the USA, and
Finland as well as a world-class fleet of offshore construction
vessels.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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