Consolidated Contractors wins $600m Ras Laffan water cooling deal

07 February 2008
Athens-based Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) has won a $600m engineering, procurement and commissioning contract for the common cooling seawater system at Ras Laffan Industrial City.

The 29-month contract, awarded by Qatar Petroleum (QP), covers the second part of the Phase 2 expansion of the plant.

CCC beat competition from Sharjah-based Petrofac International with India's Punj Lloyd and South Korea's Daewoo Engineering & Construction with Marubeni Corporation of Japan (MEED 15:1:08).

The project will supply 15.9 million gallons a day (mg/d) to the UK/Dutch Shell Group’s Pearl GTL venture and 42.3 mg/d to ExxonMobil Corporation’s Barzan and Laffan Refinery projects. All these projects are joint ventures with Qatar Petroleum.

The new recirculation system will provide a temporary connection with the existing cooling system and also supply 491.6 mg/d to the planned Ras Laffan C independent water and power project.

QP is also preparing a further $500m expansion of the common seawater cooling system at Ras Laffan in order to meet expected demand of over 1 million cubic metres of cooling water by 2010 (MEED 29:11:07).

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