MEED reported that the partners behind the USD 10 billion plus Shah Gas development in Abu Dhabi have pushed back the bid deadline for a key product pipeline construction deal for the 2nd time in as many weeks.
Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Company which is tendering contracts on behalf of the 60:40 JV partners Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has asked for commercial bids to be submitted by March 16th 2010. This marks an extension of nine days from the March 7th 2010 deadline it set for the engineering, procurement and construction deal 3 weeks before, itself a postponement from the original February 28th 2010 cut off it had previously set.
Sources at firms hoping to bid on the deal said that they did not ask for an extension, but that the client decided to push the deadline back.
A senior source at one firm said that this came from the client’s side, not ours. There was no explanation of why they pushed it back.
Firms bidding on the deal include India’s Punj Lloyd, Italy’s Saipem, the UAE’s Dodsal, Athens based Consolidated Contractors Company and China Petroleum Engineering & Construction.
The contract would be the second to be awarded on the huge scheme to develop sour, or sulphur rich, gas supplies from the southern Shah field. It covers the construction of product pipelines to carry natural gas, condensates and natural gas liquids from the Shah field to processing and distribution facilities at Habshan in the north of the emirate.
Bidding on other construction packages was pushed back until March in late 2009 and early 2010 as ADNOC and Conoco tried to make a decision on the best way to transport sulphur stripped from the natural gas from Shah to Habshan and Ruwais. They plan to use either a railway line or technically complex liquid sulphur pipelines.
(Sourced from http://www.steelguru.com/news/index/2010/03/15/MTM2NzUx/Shah_gas_pipeline_construction_deal_delayed_for_2nd_time.html)
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Shah gas pipeline construction deal delayed for 2nd time
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