Technip wins Hail and Ghasha engineering contract

21 November 2021
Adnoc has restarted the feed stage for the multibillion-dollar offshore sour gas development scheme

 

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) has awarded France-headquartered Technip Energies the contract to perform revised front-end engineering and design (feed) works on the Hail and Ghasha offshore sour gas field development project.

The revised feed works aim to reduce the overall capital expenditure on the Hail and Ghasha scheme, which was previously estimated to be as much as $15bn.

It is understood that Technip Energies will also be required to overhaul the Hail and Ghasha feed to optimise the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) execution strategy of the project.

Adnoc received technical bids for the revised Hail and Ghasha feed works from consultancy firms on 4 October. Commercial bids were submitted on 23 October.

Apart from Technip Energies, US-headquartered Fluor and Australian firm Worley competed for the Hail and Ghasha re-feed contract.

MEED reported in late July that Adnoc had issued notifications to oil and gas consultancy companies on 25 July informing them of its plan to issue new tenders for revised feed works on the Hail and Ghasha scheme.

Adnoc eventually issued the feed tender in August.

Hail and Ghasha scheme

The Hail and Ghasha fields are located in Abu Dhabi’s offshore Ghasha sour gas concession. Adnoc intends to produce more than 1.5 billion cubic feet a day of sour gas from the project by the middle of this decade.

US-headquartered Bechtel carried out the previous feed works on the project, while KBR was the overall project management consultant.

According to the original Hail and Ghasha plan, the EPC works on the project were divided into four main packages. The packages, their estimated contract values and the contracting entities bidding for each are as follows:

  • Package 1 (offshore) – $3bn
    • Saipem (Italy) / National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC, UAE)
    • McDermott (US) / Tecnicas Reunidas (Spain)
    • Archirodon (Greece) / Sinopec Engineering (China)
    • Petrofac (UK)
       
  • Package 2 (offshore) – $2bn
    • Petrofac (UK) / Samsung Engineering (South Korea)
    • Saipem (Italy) / China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corporation (CPECC, China) / NPCC (UAE)
    • Hyundai Engineering & Construction (South Korea)
    • Archirodon (Greece) / Sinopec Engineering (China)
       
  • Package 3 (onshore) – $1bn and $2bn
    • Samsung Engineering (South Korea) / Petrofac (UK)
    • Archirodon (Greece) / Sinopec Engineering (China) / Consolidated Contractors Company (Lebanon)
    • Dodsal (India)
    • Tecnimont (Italy)
       
  • Package 4 (onshore) – $4bn and $6bn
    • Petrofac (UK) / Samsung Engineering (South Korea)
    • Tecnicas Reunidas (Spain) / McDermott (US)
    • Tecnimont/Larsen & Toubro Hydrocarbon Engineering (India)
    • Saipem (Italy) / CPECC (China)

An Adnoc spokesperson previously said that the estimated contract values reported for the Hail and Ghasha project EPC packages are “purely speculative”.

A fifth package, relating to early civil works and building support structures, has been awarded to local contractor Al-Jaber Energy Services.

Project timeline

Adnoc began the EPC tendering phase for the Hail and Ghasha development in early 2019. In the previous bidding round, technical bids for EPC packages two, three and four were submitted by 11 November, and technical entries for package one were submitted by 25 November.

As part of the original project schedule, Adnoc was set to receive commercial bids in January 2020.

However, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic last year and its severe impact on the global energy industry, particularly oil and gas prices, Adnoc delayed progress on the Hail and Ghasha scheme.

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Since September last year, Adnoc had been considering downsizing the overall scope of work on the Hail and Ghasha development to reduce the total capital spending required to develop the asset, and eventually issued a revised scope of work in the form of a new tender bulletin.

Following the new tender bulletin, contractors submitted revised technical bids by 5 December 2020, in line with the recalibrated scope of work on the four EPC packages. Commercial bids were submitted by 24 February this year.

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