Bids in for greenfield Tinhert GTL plant

07 October 2005
Bids were submitted on 26 September for the concession to take an equity position in a new project company to build, own and operate an estimated $3,000 million greenfield gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in the Tinhert block near the In Amenas gas field. Bidders are understood to include a number of European and US oil majors.

Under the schedule announced in April, an initial evaluation and negotiation period will now take place, after which shortlisted bidders will be given 45 days to submit commercial proposals based on a single bid parameter.

The 30-year contract, comprising a five-year construction and development phase and a 25-year production phase, includes the development of the Tinhert block, which has capacity of 4,000 million cubic metres a year of gas and will provide feedstock for a 36,000-barrel-a-day GTL plant.

The contract also calls for: the drilling or rehabilitation of wells and the construction of associated pipelines and treatment facilities at 17 gas fields and seven oil reservoirs; the deepening of development wells to explore the high-potential Cambro-Ordovician reservoir; and the exploitation of six mature oil fields.

It is understood that there will be at least two engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) packages on the development, one for the construction of the GTL plant, and at least one other for associated works. Invitations to bid (ITBs) for the EPC packages are expected to be issued in mid-2006 (MEED 8:4:05).

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