Days after terminating key pre-construction contracts, ADNOC has invited contractors to express interest in new EPC tenders for the multibillion-dollar Hail and Ghasha sour gas development, according to a MEED report.
Industry sources claim that the expression of interest (EoI) document was issued to contractors on 29 April. Firms have been asked to express interest in the new EPC tendering round by 14 May.
The new EoI document details ADNOC’s latest EPC execution strategy for the Hail and Ghasha development. Under these plans, the offshore and onshore scope of work has been divided into three packages:
Package 1: Subsea pipelines, umbilicals, cables, risers and other offshore structures
Package 2: Offshore drilling centre facilities, the Ghasha offshore processing plant and central living quarters
Package 3: The Manayif onshore processing plant including offsite export pipelines and tie-ins, utilities, the main control building and process buildings. Work on a Ruwais sulphur-handling terminal and other non-process buildings is an optional scope for this package.
The contracts signed in January with two consortiums, comprising three contractors each, marked the start of detailed engineering work and procurement of critical long-lead items for the offshore and onshore scope of work on the Hail and Ghasha development.
A consortium of France-headquartered Technip Energies, South Korean contractor Samsung Engineering and Italy’s Tecnimont was awarded the PCSA for the onshore package. The contractors revealed the value of the contract to be approximately $80 million.
Italian contractor Saipem, Abu Dhabi’s National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) and state-owned China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Company (CPECC) won the PCSA for the offshore package, worth $60 million.
Previously, the onshore work on the Hail and Ghasha scheme involved the construction of a gas process plant, pipeline network and new gas gathering units.
The offshore PCSA covered installing offshore platforms, gas compression facilities and more than 400 kilometres of subsea pipelines.
