Adnoc LNG is on-track to award the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for its second Integrated Gas Development (IGD) expansion project before the end of the year, according to industry sources.

Technical bids for the project were submitted on 8 April this year.

A formal deadline for the submission of commercial bids is yet to be announced.

The following companies have submitted technical bids:

• National Petroleum Construction Company (local)/ Petrofac (UK)
• CB&I (US)/ Larsen & Toubro (India)
• Worley Parsons (Australia)/ Archirodon (Greece)/ Hyundai E&C (South Korea)
• Tecnicas Reunidas (Spain)/ Target Engineering (local)
• Fluor Corporation (US)
• Maire Tecnimont (France)

The IGD Expansion 2 project is estimated to be worth more than $1bn.

The IGD Expansion 2 project will expand the volume of gas from Abu Dhabi’s offshore field processed at Gasco’s onshore operations at Habshan - adding 200-400 million cubic feet a day of capacity.

The project includes adding two booster compression trains, three dehydration trains and two amine-based fuel gas treatment units – as well as associated facilities.

The package was originally tendered in March 2015 as one of five packages that formed the Integrated Gas Development Expansion project.

Commercial bids for the EPC contract were submitted in December 2015, but the project was subsequently put on hold and the contract was never awarded.

All of the other packages that were part of the first expansion project are currently in the execution phase.

Gasco completed the orignional $11bn IGD project in 2013.

The original IGD project allowed Gasco to transfer 1 billion cubic feet a day (cf/d) of high-pressure gas from the offshore Umm Shaif field via Das Island to onshore processing facilities at Habshan and Ruwais.