The first contract is for the replacement of a 100 km, 36 inch diameter pipeline linking Abu Dhabi Gas Industries’ (GASCO) Thamma C production facilities in the northeast to the firm’s Asab field in the south. The contract is worth approximately $US85 million.
The pipeline is part of the $US1 billion Asab, Bab, Bu Hasa and Ruwais project to increase production, processing and distribution capacity at the fields by 140MMcf/d.
The second engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract includes construction of the 45 km, 48 inch diameter Mirfa – Habshan nitrogen pipeline. Part of the joint venture industrial gas scheme by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) and Germany’s Linde, this pipeline will link Mirfa, in west Abu Dhabi, with the Habshan oil field, located in the south of the capital.
