Technip-Coflexip wins ADCO turnkey contract

Published May 5th, 2003 - 03:00 GMT

Technip-Coflexip, in association with the National Petroleum Construction Company of Abu Dhabi (NPCC), has been awarded a lump sum turnkey contract worth $566 million for the North East Abu Dhabi (NEAD) phase 1 project by the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO). 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 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.

Production will also be increased from the onshore Rumaitha field, located in a desert area, 50 kilometers 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.

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 Dusseldorf, 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 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. — (menareport.com)