EXCLUSIVE: Firms to submit prequalifications for Adnoc sour gas scheme

17 January 2019
Contractors are aiming to prequalify to bid for the main EPC contracts on the estimated $10bn project

Contractors are preparing to submit prequalification documents by 22 January for work on Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (Adnoc) Hail and Ghasha sour gas scheme.

Adnoc Sour Gas is developing the estimated $10bn project to boost sour gas production from the Hail and Ghasha offshore fields.

There are four key engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) packages understood to be part of the scheme.

“[Only] contractors who have experience of executing EPC contracts of worth over $1bn have been invited by the client for this project,” a source close to the project said.

The firms aiming to prequalify to bid for work on the project are understood to include:

  • Hyundai Engineering and Construction (South Korea)
  • Samsung Engineering (South Korea)
  • Larsen & Toubro (India)
  • Petrofac (UK)
  • Saipem (Italy)
  • McDermott (USA)
  • GS Engineering & Construction (South Korea)
  • JGC (Japan)

Adnoc Sour Gas produces about 1 billion cubic feet of sour gas a day (cf/d), almost entirely from the Shah gas field in Abu Dhabi.

With the Hail and Ghasha sour gas scheme, Adnoc Sour Gas intends to produce another 1 billion cf/d of sour gas by 2024.

US-headquartered Bechtel is doing the front-end engineering and design (feed) works on the megaproject, while US-based KBR is the project management consultant.

Since the EPC works are to be undertaken on the offshore fields, construction of artificial islands forms a core aspect of the project.

Adnoc Sour Gas plans to build six artificial islands to support main EPC works on the Hail and Ghasha fields. MEED recently reported that Adnoc was set to award the contract for the reclamation and marine works.

The Hail and Ghasha fields, along with the Dalma gas field form part of Abu Dhabi’s Ghasha sour gas concession.

When all the gas fields of the Ghasha concession come online in the next decade, Adnoc says those will produce enough gas to provide electricity to two million homes.

As part of its 2030 strategic direction, Adnoc is looking to tap into its conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources, by bringing in investment and the expertise of foreign players.

Aligned with this goal, Adnoc awarded Italy’s Eni, Germany’s Wintershall and Austria’s OMV 15 per cent, 10 per cent and 5 per cent stakes respectively in the Ghasha concession. Adnoc retained the majority 60 per cent share for itself.

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