Bahrain National Gas Company (Banagas) has invited international engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors to submit prequalification applications by 25 November for a major new contract to build field pipelines and expand storage facilities.

The scope of work covers the installation of a 28-kilometre-long gas pipeline between the Banagas gas processing plant and its refrigerated gas storage facility at Sitra. The work on the latter will comprise of two storage tanks totaling 300,000 cubic metres, along with gas compressors, circulation pumps and propane refrigeration units.

The UK’s Wood Group did the project’s front-end engineering and design (FEED).

In early November, three international contractors submitted bids for the EPC of a new gas plant for Banagas. The plant is part of a series of projects to expand gas processing capacity in Bahrain over the next three to five years.

According to the country’s national tender board, Bahrain National Gas Company (Banagas) received bids from:

• Netherlands-based CB&I,
• Japan’s JGC Corporation and
• French group Technip

All three companies are understood to have completed a front-end engineering & design (feed) study for the plant and have now bid for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) phase.

The plant is part of a series of projects to expand gas processing capacity in Bahrain over the next three to five years.

Last month, UK-based Petrofac was awarded contract by Bahrain’s Tatweer Petroleum to build a gas dehydration facility in the country.

Petrofac says the 500 million cubic feet a day (cf/d) facility will process gas produced from the Bahrain field.

Banagas’ main role is to operate LPG plant facilities to recover natural gas liquids from associated gas produced from the Bahrain oil field. It currently operates to gas processing trains with a feed gas throughput of about 300 million cf/d.