Qatalum inquiry issued

13 January 2006
Contractors have been invited to express their interest by 11 January in bidding for the site preparation and quay wall construction package on the proposed Qatalum project at Mesaieed. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, expected to go for tender in the second quarter, will involve the dredging of about 7 million cubic metres of material to a depth of 13 metres, site filling and levelling work, the construction of 500 metres of quay wall and associated works.

Under the proposed schedule, the contract is due to be awarded in the fourth quarter, with dredging and landfill work completed in the third quarter of 2007 and overall contract completion set for mid-2008.

The Qatalum project, to be implemented by a joint venture of Norway's Hydro Aluminium and Qatar Petroleum, involves in the first phase the construction of a 570,000-tonne-a-year aluminium smelter and a 1,000-MW power plant (MEED 10:12:04).

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