Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Company is assessing bids for the deal to build 100 kilometre pipeline linking the company’s production facilities in the northeast and southwest of the emirate.

8th international firms submitted commercial bids outlining proposed cost structures for the engineering, procurement and construction contract on November 15th 2009. The winning bidder will replace the existing 36 inch pipeline that carries ethane and methane rich lean gas and links Gasco’s Thamma C production facilities in the northeast with the state owned enterprise’s Asab facilities in the southwest.

The bidders were Larsen & Toubro and Punj Lloyd of India, the UAE’s Dodsal and National Petroleum Construction Company, Athens based Consolidated Contractors Company, US/Canadian Veco, the US’ Willbros Group and Lebanon’s Contracting & Trading.

Veco is now working on a front end engineering and design contract on the project. The project is part of USD 1 billion plus scheme to improve the gas production, processing and distribution infrastructure at the Asab, Bab, Bu Hasa and Ruwais fields by 150 million cubic feet per day. The scheme is known as ABBR.

(Sourced from MEED)