Mr Al Sayegh said that supply to the UAE and Dubai power stations will start by early next year, for a period of 25 years. "At present, work on drilling and completing 24 offshore wells to between 3000-4000m in the Khuff zone below Dolphin's concession areas is in full swing using two large specialist rigs," he said. The jackets for two operating well platforms have been in place for some months, and the company has just installed the production superstructures. Mr Al Sayegh said the raw gas from the platforms will travel 80-km to shore through twin 36-in pipelines, which are currently being laid, to the processing plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City. Six 52-MW turbines will compress the refined gas before it goes through the export pipeline. DEL is also currently evaluating bids for the Eastern Gas Distribution System (EGDS), to distribute gas by pipeline to customers throughout the UAE and Oman. Dolphin's chairman said the company is now planning to market the gas liquids procured from Qatar, which includes 90,000brl of condensate, 3800 tons of LPGs, 3780 tons of ethane, and 770 tons of sulphur. "DEL will market 330,000brl of oil equivalent (BOE) gas to the UAE and Oman, while the total for oil and gas products will reach to 486,000 BOE, which is a significant amount of energy," he said. DEL will support Qatar in the joint marketing of the gas liquids' products, while at the other extreme it will supply gas to customers in the UAE and Oman. Mr Al Sayegh said that during 2007, Dolphin will reach its full throughput of 2bn cuft/d, and in later years, it will deliver 20bn cum of gas to the country, around 30% of the total requirement for the nation's power stations. In the second phase, Dolphin will provide 1.2bn cuft/d from Qatar; to allow for this, the pipeline is being built so that it can take the additional 60% increase in throughput without difficulty, although additional wells, offshore lines, and processing facilities will be required. The tariff will be based on a formula which is gas sold to the company in Qatar plus cost of transportation, which could be $30-40/scm. Mr Al Sayegh said that there was also probably a need for another 3bn-cuft gas pipeline from Qatar, although this would not be considered for the time being.