TURKEY Alcatel bids low for pipeline communications system

13 November 1998
NEWS

France's Alcatel is the low bidder for a turnkey contract to upgrade the communications system on the Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline. Final bids for the Turkish section of the pipeline were submitted on 21 October.

State pipeline company Botas said Alcatel put in the low bid of $9.76 million, followed by Germany's Bosch Telekom at $12.37 million, while a Japanese team of NEC Corporation and Mitsui & Company put in a joint bid of $12.81 million to replace the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) links on the pipeline. The companies also offered alternative bids.

Botas will finance the project involving the 640-kilometre length of the pipeline on Turkish territory, while Iraq is seeking finance for the 340-kilometre section on its own territory. Iraq was expected to receive the bids for the project in early November.

Work on the Turkish segment, stretching from Silopi to the port of Ceyhan, will entail the replacement of all radio links as well as multiplex telephone switchboards and other communications devices. The SCADA system, built by NEC in 1987, will also be replaced.

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