It was recently reported that Australia’s WorleyParsons has won the front end engineering and design contract on the trans emirates oil pipeline, running from Habshan in Abu Dhabi to Fujairah planned by Abu Dhabi government owned International Petroleum Investment Company.

WorleyParsons bagged the contract after beating four other bidders JP Kenny a part of the UK’s Wood Group, the UK’s Mott MacDonald, Paris based Technip and the US Canadian Veco.

The contract covers the design of a 360 kilometer long pipeline able to handle 1.5 million barrels a day of crude and a 1 million barrel storage terminal at Fujairah. The pipeline will provide the first direct outlet for Abu Dhabi crude outside the Gulf by passing the Strait of Hormuz.