UAE/German gas firm Elixier is prequalifying local firms for a nitrogen pipeline construction contract, with the bidding process expected to begin in the second quarter of 2009 after a survey of the planned works.
A source close to Elixier, a joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) and Germany’s Linde, tells MEED that the survey is currently being completed, and should be finished by the end of March.
Local firms have already been invited to prequalify. “We will start the bidding process as soon as we have received the survey,” the source says.
The 48-inch-diameter pipeline will cover a distance of 45 kilometres, from the company’s Mirfa nitrogen plant to the Habshan condensate field, where the gas will be used for reinjection, to free natural gas for the national grid.
Elixier’s two nitrogen units will have a capacity of 670,000 cubic metres per hour upon completion in 2010.
Firms are also being prequalified for undisclosed mechanical work on the two plants.
Linde holds a 49 per cent stake in the joint venture to Adnoc’s 51 per cent.
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