ADNOC Fuel PLC has awarded three contracts totaling $2.1 billion for the feedstock infrastructure of the Ruwais LNG venture within the United Arab Emirates.
The majority of the awards at $1.24 billion, for an LNG pre-conditioning plant (LPP), went to a consortium between Engineering for the Petroleum and Course of Industries (ENPPI) and Petroleum Initiatives and Technical Consultations Co., each Egyptian state-owned firms.
State-owned China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Co. bagged a $514 million contract for transmission pipelines.
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The remaining $335 million went to Petrofac Emirates LLC to develop compression services, ADNOC Fuel stated in a press launch Thursday.
The services outlined within the three contracts cowl the conditioning and supply of pure fuel to the liquefaction plant in Al Ruwais Industrial Metropolis on the Persian Gulf coast.
Anticipated to start out operation 2028, Ruwais LNG is deliberate to have two trains with a mixed capability of 9.6 million metric tons each year (MMtpa). It might greater than double ADNOC Fuel’ present LNG manufacturing capability to over 15 MMtpa.
On June 12, 2024, Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Co. (ADNOC), the most important shareholder in built-in fuel processing firm ADNOC Fuel, introduced a constructive last funding choice and the award of a $5.5 billion engineering, procurement and building contract for Ruwais LNG. The contract went to a three way partnership by Dutch agency Technip Energies NV, Japan’s JGC Holdings Corp. and the UAE’s NMDC Vitality.
In 2023 ADNOC awarded a contract for all-electric compression programs for Ruwais LNG to Baker Hughes Co. Ruwais LNG’s two trains will use the USA agency’s 75-megawatt BRUSH electrical motor know-how, Baker Hughes stated in a press assertion October 4, 2023. Ruwais LNG would be the first fuel export facility within the Center East and Africa to run on clear energy, in line with ADNOC.
On Wednesday, The Woodlands, Texas-based CB&I stated it had gained a “substantial” contract from the Technip Energies-led consortium to ship two cryogenic tanks for Ruwais LNG.
CB&I’ll ship two 180,000-cubic meter (6.36 million cubic toes) full containment concrete LNG tanks and perform the related civil, structural, mechanical and piping works. CB&I expects to start out building November 2025.
CB&I, a designer and builder of storage services, tanks and terminals, didn’t specify the contract worth, however it defines a “substantial” contract as starting from $250 million to $500 million.
Ruwais LNG counts in the direction of a deliberate 2025–29 capex of $15 billion that ADNOC Fuel introduced November 11, 2024.
Nonetheless, it stated, “The capital expenditure for the LPP, compression services and transmission pipelines, doesn’t kind a part of the prices beforehand outlined by ADNOC Fuel for its supposed acquisition of ADNOC’s majority stake within the Ruwais LNG venture as soon as the plant turns into operational in 2028”.
ADNOC Fuel chief government Fatema Al Nuaimi stated concerning the feedstock infrastructure contracts, “We’re investing in world-class infrastructure and revolutionary applied sciences as we develop our capability in LNG liquefaction and strengthen our place as a worldwide participant”.
“The awards additionally underline our dedication to creating strategic and focused investments that allow the supply of our most important initiatives, permitting us to proceed assembly our clients’ calls for internationally”, Al Nuaimi added.
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