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GCC
K
uwait is well on track to achieve its goal to hike its oil have developed considerable technical expertise and financial
production capacity to four million barrels a day (b/d) by strength to accomplish their projects. With things calming down
2020 from its current 3.3 million b/d. As part of the plan to boost in the political front and Farouk al-Zanki, being appointed as the
oil output, the Chairman of Kuwait Oil Company, Sami Al- KPC’s (Kuwait Petroleum Corp) Chief Executive in September,
Rushaid confirms that 120,000 barrels of oil have been added to “Project Kuwait” will perhaps see new light with National and
current capacity in October, raising it to 3.42 million b/d. International oil companies working together on more
economically viable terms realized in the initial plan.
Recognized as a major player in the global energy market,
Kuwait is blessed with oil reserves of 104 bbl which makes it the Al-Zanki is seen as a person who could drive the 2020
fifth largest holder of oil reserves in the world and the second production plan. Kuwaiti oil analyst Kamel Al Harami said, “It’s
largest within the GCC, after Saudi Arabia. Considering the BP good because it’s the first time that someone from the upstream
assessment (BP Statistical Review of World Energy June 2010) sector is hired to head the KPC, and this is what Kuwait needs,
of 1333.1 bbl of world proven oil reserves at the end of 2009, to invest and increase production and meet its 2020 production
Kuwait has 7.8 pc of total oil reserves. This includes half of the 5 target.”
billion barrels in the Saudi-Kuwaiti neutral zone which Kuwait
shares with Saudi Arabia. Further in the oil production development, the contracts have
been awarded after much delay, for
Kuwait plays host to the world's the crude oil gathering centre (GC–16)
second largest oil field, the Greater project and the early production
Burgan, which has reserves of a facilities project at Kuwait’s northern
whopping 70-billion barrels and has oil fields.
been producing since 1938. The
Greater Burgan area comprises the The GC–16 contract for the
Burgan, Magwa and Ahmadi construction, commissioning,
structures and has a production operation and maintenance of the
capacity of around 1.6 million b/d. facility has been awarded to Saudi
The other oil fields of Kuwait, which Arabia’s Al-Khorayef Commercial
has large proven reserves as well, are Raudhatain, Sabriya, Company. The project will have the capacity to handle 100,000
and Minagish fields with 5.1 billion, 4.3 billion, and 3.3 billion b/d of sour crude oil from the Minagish, Dharif and Abduliyah
barrels of oil, respectively. fields. The project is expected to be completed by the end of
2014.
As part of the plan to reach a capacity of 4 million b/d by 2020,
“Project Kuwait” a USD 15 billion plus project was envisaged in The early production facilities project at Kuwait’s northern oil
1991. The project aim was to develop the country’s technically fields has been awarded to the local Kharafi National. The
complex northern oil fields and increase production from Facility will be built at Kuwait’s northern oil fields, with a planned
400,000 to 900,000 barrels daily. Since, local expertise at that production of up to 510 million cubic feet a day (cf/d) of
time was able to produce “easy oil” only, the assistance of associated gas and 150,000 b/d of wet sour crude. These
International Oil Companies was essential to provide the temporary facilities will test the viability of production. If viable,
technical know-how. However, the project got repeatedly KOC will build permanent facilities.
delayed due to politicians’ apprehensiveness about the role,
international oil companies play in their national wealth. The fast paced technology development in the oil sector of
In the years gone by, the National Oil Companies of the GCC Kuwait adds confidence in reaching the massive oil output
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target. Recently, Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) joined the oil and However, Kuwait’s oil consumption maintained its upward trend
gas Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF), which has to its name consuming 419,000 b/d, which was 9.8 pc more that of the
the recognition of addressing various industry technologies previous year. This is against global oil consumption, which
such as enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies, tight and experienced a decline of 1.7 pc (1.2 million b/d).
shale gas and coal bed methane, drilling efficiency, HP/HT
production and more. As the global economy is accelerating, OPEC maintains a
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Companies working in the projects market could be busy in 2011 depending on the number of big projects. The only reason that will
make it difficult to meet this figure are unexpected delays.
Saudi Arabia leads the region awarding contracts worth around USD 82 bn, followed by the UAE at nearly USD 38 bn, and Kuwait at
USD 26 bn. TEI-EO research indicates a 8 pc growth in the value of contracts awarded to GCC’s main contractors in 2011.
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industry.
Tecnimont along with partner Mohamed Abdel Mohsen Al-
Kharafi & Sons in Kuwait will build the facilities to strip sulphur
Located 45 km to the south of Kuwait City in the Arabian Gulf, from natural gas at the refinery 50 km from Kuwait City. The
the refinery was established in 1949 to meet the demand for facilities include a gas-handling unit, gas-sweetening facilities,
gasoline, kerosene and diesel in the local market. as well as a sulphur recovery unit and related infrastructure.
The contract also involves revamping of the existing gas
handling facilities.
The refinery’s modernization started in the early 1980s as part
of an overall plan to upgrade the oil refining industry and expand
refineries. The project was aimed at providing local and world The plant will have a capacity to handle as much as 230 million
markets with low sulphur content petroleum products, and to cubic feet a day of gas and 78,000 barrels a day of
reduce dependence on gas as a fuel source. The project was condensates. It is expected to be commissioned by the end of
completed in four years, and the refinery became one of the 2013.
world's most progressive refineries, in terms of technology and
refining capacity.
The KNPC, in order to revamp its refineries and increase The other contracts which have been awarded are the KNPC’s
capacities, devised a multi-billion-dollar ‘Refineries Upgrade LPG Train-4 project and the flare gas recovery unit at the
Program’ and the ‘Clean Fuel Project’ program. refinery. South Korea's Daelim International Company won the
contract worth USD 886 million in June 2010, for the
construction of a fourth gas production train at the refinery's gas
The refineries upgrade program involves the upgrading of liquefaction plant. The project involves the construction of gas
tanks, effluent revamping and renovation of control, safety and plants which will produce ethane, propane and butane by
the main process systems at the three refineries - Mina treating about 805 billion standard cubic feet a day (SCFD)
Abdullah, Mina Al Ahmadi and Shuaiba. gases and 106.3 mbpd condensates. The project is expected to
take three years.
The Clean Fuel Project involves the rehabilitation and
upgrading of Mina Al Ahmadi and Mina Abdullah refineries to Local engineering and construction firm Gulf Spic General
increase capacities. Trading and Contracting Company won the flare gas recovery
unit contract worth KWD 8.75 million (USD 31 million).
The latter half of 2010 has seen a significant growth in contracts
for refineries, though after a long delay due to the country’s Imminent Deal
unease with foreign firms, who were awarded the contracts.
The contract worth USD 1.2 billion to design and build a new
liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank farm at Mina Al Ahmadi
Contracts Awarded refinery is imminent. The planned tank farm in the northern part
of the refinery will replace the older one with lesser capacity.
The KNPC awarded a USD 400 mn contract to Italy’s Tecnimont The new tank farm will store LPG from KNPC’s fourth gas train.
to build an acid-gas removal plant at the Mina Al-Ahmadi AMEC completed the FEED study for the project in Q2 2010.
refinery. The plant is part of the clean fuel project that covers the
upgrade of Mina Al Ahmadi Refinery.
KNPC has set the closing date for technical and commercial
bids at November 28, 2010. The project is expected to be
The KNPC tendered the contract in December 2009 for which completed by the end of 2013.
ten international engineering firms were prequalified.
Tecnimont, the engineering firm, won the contract after
emerging as the frontrunner with the lowest bid of KD 116 m The firms pre-qualified for the contract are Daelim Industrial,
(USD 404 m) in a May 18 bid round. Daewoo Engineering & Construction, GS Engineering &
Construction, Hyundai Engineering & Construction, Hyundai
Heavy Industries, Petrofac International, Saipem, Sinopec
The other companies who competed for the contract, were Engineering and SK Engineering & Construction. The contract
China’s Sinopec, the UK’s Petrofac, Italy’s Saipem, GS is likely to be awarded by February 2011.
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Special Feature
Hydro-electric Projects
R
ecalling the early days of hydro privatization in the early indigenously, because the expenses have been no less.
nineties, when the Department of Non-Conventional Even so, deep within I am certain it could never have been
Energy (DNES) made its first transformation towards a Ministry possible that way, in a fraternity where anything internationally
and came to be known as MNES, I remember a meeting with the borrowed is acceptable, but we have not come to accept that
Advisor while representing my small hydro manufacturing we can learn to work in an international manner ourselves. And
company, named Flovel. there, my fellow ‘hydrozens,’ lies the moot problem of hydro, be
it technology, manufacturing or contracting.Now after almost
One of the main issues was to put an end to the
downscaling of large hydro projects to arrive at a
technological or commercial understanding of the
subject in its broken down economies of scale. That
was the phase when only small hydro could be
conceived for privatization and so came the question.
Finally with MNES formation came the definition of
small hydro and it has changed from 3 MW to 25 MW
since the early 1990s, but not without the question,
“How big is big and how small is small?” in a science,
where unit capacity is based on permutations of head
versus discharge and various land related and local
issues.
While forming foreign joint ventures then, we had perhaps given Going back to the matter of high engineering costs with
some semblance to the MNES desire for standardization, but international manufacturers in India for standardized
were far away from executing multiple orders of a “small hydro equipment, truly, how much impact can a variation of even one
industry” with a small engineering work force, and I would tend percent in efficiency of a bidder’s turbine have (sometimes the
to ponder, whether had it not been better to develop the turbines difference between winning and losing a tender, based on
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financial loadings during evaluation) on an already uncertain Faridabad, how the thinking and adaptation process has been
flow discharge pattern at sites, to justify the engineering cost and how the delays in contract awards have been caused, and
too? Somehow today’s small hydro private dhevelopers seem later in some cases prevented, in this learning process at the
to be convinced that the cheaper Chinese turbines are a lot core of the hydro power sector.
more attractive! Quality again, is a matter of choice!
I recall our own, as also the foreign principals’ frustration when
As such, even when working towards a Model Document for even NHPC would still ask for “fully homologous model tests”
Hydro Contracting, we will have to think deep down the science for a small hydro project and found it impossible not to use its
and its implications for the future. Otherwise we will grope with entire strength of a large hydro project work force to a small
“how model is model” just as “how standardized is hydro project in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. However,
standardized” and “how big is big.” the project was a success and then there were perhaps not as
many large projects on the table as they have now. Perhaps this
Evolution of the Hydro Contract Document proximity in my educative phase and the fact that NHPC
Te last decade has been a mixed bag of miracles and miseries officials have headed CBIP and other private and public groups
for the hydro world and I can only speak from the viewpoint of a even after retirement from the NHPC, became the reason for
marketing & contracting professional with a global multinational me to write this article at the 11th hour of a conference on model
hydro manufacturing and contracting company. Even so, the contract documents for the benefit of all, especially the new
significance might well be lost on say, a middle management generation of contracting personnel in both the private and
marketing counterpart in the government sector. One of the government sectors.
main reasons is that he (in public sector) is not pulled in two
opposite directions by the controller of accounts in Europe Yes, firstly the famous NHPC ‘Forms’ section of the contract
adamant to have me build additional risk costs every time there which gives no room to fudge the truth, but repetition over and
is a bomb blast in India, and to deal with the head of contracts of over again has made it a drudgery of sorts. I have also felt that
a public sector entity on the other, who asks “so you have done when references and experience lists become so focused it
great work in Europe on similar projects….but what have you leaves no room for growth and development within an
got to show in India?” innovative organization, which can very well develop new ideas
and products if given leeway to experiment. Why cannot the
customer’s contracting think tank give some benefit of doubt to
This has been perhaps the greatest challenge of this unique but
new and entrepreneur companies in building new ideas and
growing breed of multinational and transnational contracting
products. In fact they should actually be giving marks for that, if
professionals in the last two decades. The fact is that around 80
we are in a progressive India which has found water on the
pc of my partners-in-progress hydro professionals are in the
moon!
public sector or from it, wherever they may presently be.
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agree or disagree with that, I do agree that the rate of progress in equipment and machinery contractors has not been without
thermal has been far greater and the crossover bridge to and raised eyebrows over the many assumptions that are required,
from thermal to hydro is essential, but commercial and technical as the tariff aspect is broken down into smaller elements. Also,
verticals in the public sector would have to be thinned down we are still unsure of the measurements of ‘turbine efficiency’
significantly to dovetail the two essential elements when and find it impractical to enforce guarantees. I sometimes feel
formulating contracts. Many of my fellow ‘hydrozens’ will recall that many of the ‘musts’ are irrelevant, and in most cases the
the PFC made model contract documents for the R, M & U holes can be filled not by in-house perception but having the
(Renovation, Modernization & Upgrading) program in the late right external experts in contract committee. Off late I was
1990s after much debates, seminars and meetings and under aghast to learn that in the government sector there is no
the aegis of CEA and MOP. provision to appoint a private consultant for obvious reasons,
although an ex-government employee can be appointed
without even a bid process!
It did trigger the program and helped some private sector
multinationals like my erstwhile SULZER/VATECH subsidiaries
and others like VOITH to emerge as challengers to BHEL. Even In many cases, project owners would do better if they try to
the NHPC and State Electricity Boards welcomed the private reduce their project costs in simpler ways, rather than enforcing
alternatives, since BHEL was a monopoly until then. Even so so many guarantees on contractors that they hike their prices
after the initial spurt, the R, M & U program has laid dormant, for risks involved! In the end they have qualified bidders who do
depleted and the back to the not meet their budgets.
small contractor phase, mainly Either they must move
as development of contracting parliament for a hike in
documents and evaluation costs or delay until a
procedures never happened. contract-worthy solution is
Even larger and important found.
hydro projects of NHPC,
UJVNL & BBMB were shelved In any case, the project gets
or put on hold as evaluation delayed! Sometimes we
aspects looked widely hazy. Yet have to look beyond the
we have stood by the lowest bid p r a g m a t i s m o f
fixation and cannot define the modernization & change
‘lowest evaluated bidder,’ and resort to convention. All
because that needs contracting this means the need for
‘finesse,’ especially for the flexibility and not creating
innovative areas of R, M & U bibles in contract modeling.
and some cases of large and mega hydro in the Himalayan and But all said, this could also point to the failure of the private
silt-prone regions. sector for projecting itself as very reliable and trustworthy!
The evolution process of making contract documents, to create Lessons from Global Contracting
models that are flexible and adaptive to situation and change, I recall asking my German counterpart contract manager once,
rather than ‘language documents’ of ‘standard forms’ that have “then how would you award consultancy and execution of the
insinuations of being gospel is the real challenge in hydropower same project to the same company” in a hydropower RM&U
sector contracting, if it is to rise as popular and powerful as its project in which the contractors were selected on the basis of
thermal or nuclear cousins. best and cost economical solutions.
For selection of hydro developers we have tariff based In fact, the flexibility of the contracting process (on a global
evaluation, fine, but the same used in judging generating platform, mind you!), gave birth to several SULZER’s
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innovations in low head turbine configurations such as Straflo On the civil side, we seem to be sure that we have mastered
(generator with its hub as turbine inside water path) and many every civil engineering aspect because with private developers
other unique and innovative concepts, while finding specific coming in, the civil engineer has become the contract specialist
solutions for the replacement of old turbines within existing civil and has given due flexibility to the E&M contractor, but not to
works. I say this, as I can count a lot more than 25 small/medium another civil contractor. So we have in some cases desilting
hydro projects in the country which are not operational for 10 or tanks that cost a fortune when perhaps the cost could have
more years since they were taken up. No one can contribute the been cut and better utilized to find other solutions such as
right techno-commercial idea to revive these, which is within the investing in the development of protective coatings for turbine
parameters of the Ministry of State guidelines. The best that parts.
Contractors and Manufacturers have hitherto recommended is
to change the entire equipment, which can never be acceptable. We all know that the civil document of a DPR cannot be touched
The truth is, that no one has the time or commitment to solutions during the contracting phase. But here there is another problem
in a PPP manner that would make these investments find their of project authority approval and putting the horse before the
worth. cart and vice-versa scenario. Getting Civil consultants and Civil
Contractors to work side by side with equipment specialists in
DPR phase can indeed be a challenge, but will prevent delay-
But my question is, will you pay me to find the solution and intrinsic situations when even minor drawing changes must go
execute it too. Then we do not have a contract document to do through a long process and we have only the CEO in case of a
that…no sir, not for 10 years. We have to understand the simple private developer to be the deciding authority in the end, once
logic of a mathematical equation, that more the ‘ponderables,’ their engineering team have okayed the DPR and drawings.
more the variables and more the creativity to sequence these
variables and variables into multiple equations and to merge It is such pressures on the top management of SPVs and
these equations into a simple single and solvable private owners that cause possible catastrophes (alternatively
equation….but that takes talent and ideas and money to back delays!) if we are over-tenacious in expediting our project but
up. So the challenge is can we be creative to formulate these lack knowledge and contracting skills that have seen mega
hydro project successes world-wide. This also calls for the
training of the top management of private sector companies in
phasing out the innings with the skills of a Sachin Tendulkar.
Such is the process of project scheduling and contract
development.
Fortunately, I notice from recent contracts, that we are Adapting the lessons to Contract Models for Hydro
becoming less binding even in new construction large hydro In a nutshell Indian Hydropower has to re-evaluate itself, now
projects of some private developers while specifying generating that we have learnt something so that we are not China or any
equipment…yes, we have all learnt from our mistakes and even other country-dependent to formulate our own thinking, but
the CEA is clear on how to handle the ‘cusp’ in regions when a have adequate awareness of how they all succeeded in their
Pelton Turbine can be used just as well as a Francis, perhaps countries. China, has looked only inwards and has immense
with some advantages too in some cases. So definitely we are faith in its people, whereas we are nowhere near that, even
improving! though we boast we have the best engineers in the world. It
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would be futile to create model documents with an yet untrained constituent as failures can result in environmental problems. An
private sector which is still coming to terms with the specifics of overall idea to get the hydro (and for that matter the Renewal
hydro and any day, might well want to run back to the comfort of Energy) sector out from its closet into mainstream industry in a
thermal & wind for some degree of ‘certainty’ in how he must guided manner can be a role for a central body of the
proceed…..the reason that hydro projects, especially in smaller government. This should also address grievances of bidders
ranges have become more like property investments than and developers and prevent situations in which we are left with
power sector development. no viable bidders in certain categories of hydro projects, such
as services, repairs, overhaul where contracts are still tailored
As such, I see contracting as a HRD issue, especially in the for BHEL (who must concentrate more on larger challenges
wake of the post recession period when I am seeing a welcome ahead), unless a local contractor who has repaired a shaft seal
influx of HR consulting companies wanting to specialize in of a 100 MW project succeeds in proving that he has ‘executed’
power & infra. It would be pragmatic to create forums with hydro a 100 MW project.
expert groups in the development of HR ideas for training,
development & placement of personnel. Such provisions will encourage entrepreneurship and the
development of new companies, formed by experts from the
The wide-scale web based networking opportunities are a boon larger groups perhaps, to build a larger subcontracting base
to professionals and can be made instrumental to provide and hence viable local options for developers and owners of
greater penetration in shorter time. Further Hydro, both new projects both in public and private sector. Formulation,
projects as well as cases of Renovation-Modernization, is execution, understanding and appreciation of contract
qualified for carbon credits under CDM and these issues will documents are the key to solving all the hitherto prominent
have to be incorporated with a eye on each contracting problems of hydropower:
1. Lack of understanding of the multiplicity of issues involved from local to technology & finance
2. Power industry and government making efforts to encourage a framework for funding talent in form of expert groups
and enterprise in manufacturing and contracting, in addition to asset based financing of power projects
3. Development of a reliable contracting and subcontracting base who are partners in the project
4. Learning from past experiences and indigenization of manufacturing technologies & enhancement of severely
depleted indigenous manufacturing base progressively over coming years
5. Education & grooming of management & personnel talent within private and public sector
6. Grooming and developing new age contracting and engineering personnel in government departments to put power
sector in India on par with the best in the world
7. To reduce the Thermal to Hydro gap by facilitating faster completions and allotment process
8. Enhancing Public Private Partnership and facilitating the two to work jointly towards the development of power &
infrastructure within the country.
9. Social contribution to educate and involve the people of the country, especially locals in hydro intensive areas about
climate change and making optimum use of the natural resources at our disposal - while they last and are within
man's control.
YOGESH BAHADUR
Presently Managing Director, Pentacle Energy & Infra Projects Pvt. Ltd.; Yogesh Bahadur was President-CEO/Power Business with Best &
Crompton and Head of Business Development for VATECH HYDRO/Flovel, Faridabad prior to setting up his company with a mission to “Fill the
holes” in development of Power and Renewable Energy projects in India and provides Business Consultancy and EPC project support services.
Mr. Bahadur is a graduate Naval Architect & Marine Engineer from University of Michigan, USA and has about 30 years experience in Power
Sector and Shipbuilding with expertise in hydro power, steam and gas turbine technology. He has been at forefront of business development by
multinational contracting companies in India who set shop in India in early '90s and has played a pioneering role since development of the first of hydro and
wind energy projects in private sector.
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T
he Rise of The Umbilicals 9 Ian Probyn, dynamic where they hang in the water column, and are
Senior Structural Analysis Engineer at DUCO subjected to fatigue loading.
Ltd, Technip, UK gives Energy Outlook an insight
into the manufacture, working and the significance There are of four general types of umbilicals, the steel tube,
of umbilical systems at DUCO, Technip. thermoplastic hose, power cable and hybrid umbilicals.
Ian Probyn is responsible for development of finite element The umbilicals carry chemicals for injection into the flow-line for
analysis techniques of subsea umbilical systems at Duco. flow assurance, electrical power supply and hydraulic power
Umbilicals are used as control and supply link for subsea Oil and supply. The umbilical also provides hydraulic and electrical
Gas extraction equipment. control signals, and optical control signals via fibre optic cables.
Probyn joined DUCO in 2004 and has been responsible for DUCO LTD & Technip
developing and validating finite element analysis techniques, DUCO’s main facility is located at Newcastle upon Tyne in the
based on Abaqus, to assess the behaviour of the complex UK. We have four manufacturing facilities. They are at
helical construction of the umbilical in structural and thermal Newcastle-UK, Houston-US, Angola on the West Coast of
scenarios. He graduated from Loughborough University in 1997 Africa, and a new facility that is scheduled to commence
with a Bachelor’s degree in Automotive Engineering, and operations this year in Malaysia.
worked as a crash simulation engineer for Rover, BMW and
Land Rover, where he developed vehicle body structures for
crashworthiness using FEA software. Since 2003 DUCO has been a part of the Technip group.
Technip provides full oil and gas capability in sub-sea areas,
and offshore and onshore. When it comes to sub-sea
equipment, Technip, designs, manufactures and installs
umbilicals, flexible risers and rigid pipelines. For offshore
projects, Technip is capable of engineering and construction of
fixed or floating platforms adapted to all water depths for oil and
gas production at sea. Onshore, Technip engineers and
constructs all onshore installations for the oil and gas,
petrochemical, and non-oil industries (including chemicals, life
sciences, renewable energies…) So, the umbilical system is
only a small, but vital, piece of the jigsaw puzzle which makes
up a complete offshore installation.
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and fibre optic cables. If it is a steel tube umbilical then the steel prove that the fatigue life of the umbilical is going to be sufficient
tubes provide the tensile strength, and if it's a thermoplastic or for that particular installation. This can be dependent upon the
power cable umbilical then there's a steel armour layer that's type of vessel that the umbilical is attaching to, that is whether
applied, and that provides tensile strength. it's a spar or an FPSO, as dynamic motion can vary between
various types of vessels.
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TENDERS GCC
Kuwait
Tender Name : Supply and Extension of Electricity Cables 1. Civil and structural
Description : Kuwait's Central Tender Committee has issued 2. Electrical: High and Low voltage
tenders for supply and extension of 132kV 3. Mechanical: piping and pipelines
ground cables insulated with cross-linked 4. Pressure vessels and heat exchangers
polyethylene (XLPE) and pilot cables with 5. Instrumentation and Control System
accessories in the Shuaiba area for the 6. Fire and Gas Detection System
Electricity & Water Ministry. Tenders are open to 7. Telecommunication
prequalified contractors only. 8. Architectural and Landscaping
A pre-bid meeting will be held on 8 November. 9. HVAC
10. Process
Bid Bond : KD 340,000
11. Rotating Equipment
Details : Complete bid documents can be obtained on
QAR 1,500,000
payment of KD 2,500 from: Bid Bond :
Central Tender Committee, Complete bid documents can be obtained on
Details : payment of QAR 500 from:
13011 Safat,
P.O. box 1070 - Safat. Qatar Petroleum
Tel: (965) 2401200 Contracts Department - Operations Division,
Fax: (965) 2416574 Room G13, 4th Floor,
Email: info@ctc.gov.kw G Wing, Royal Plaza,
Doha, PO Box 3212.
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Saudi Arabia
Tender Name : Provision of Material Handlers Support Services Tender Name : SWCC Desalination Plant
Description : Tenders have been issued by Qatar Petroleum Description : SWCC invites pre-qualification documents to
for the provision of manpower support services of carry out package D of phase three of the
qualified and experienced materials handlers on 1,700MW, 550,000-cubic-metre-a-day Yanbu
continuous and call-off basis to assist QP power and desalination plant project. Package D
Materials Department at different QP Locations includes the design, engineering, construction,
i.e. Doha, Dukhan, Mesaieed and Ras Laffan for commissioning and testing of the desalination
a period of three (3) Years. plant including seawater pumping station,
Bid Bond : QAR 300,000 balance of plant, instrumentation and control
systems, offshore facilities including seawater
Details : Complete bid documents can be obtained on
intake and outfall, and beach development at the
payment of QAR 500 from:
housing compound
Qatar Petroleum
An original copy of the statement of qualification
Contracts Department Corporate Division,
must be sent to
Room G11, 4th Floor,
Arndt-Jochen Mummert, Project Manager
G Wing, Royal Plaza,
Fichtner GmbH & Co, KG,
Doha, PO Box 3212.
Sarweystrasse 3, 70191 Stuttgart,
Tel: (974) 440 2000
Germany
Fax: (974) 483 1125
e-mail: arndt-jochen.mummert@fichtner.de
Country : Qatar
Bid Bond : KD100,000
Closing Date : 12/12/2010
Details : Complete tender documents can be collected
from:
Tender Name : EPIC of Signage System Saline Water Conversion Corporation
Engineer Mohammad Abdullah al-Dakheel
Description : The EPIC tender has been issued by Qatar
Olaya-Prince Mohd. Bin Abdulaziz Street
Petroleum for the of Indoor & Outdoor signage at
PO Box 5968, Riyadh 11432
various locations in Dukhan Township
Tel: +9661 4631111
1. Proposed installation of indoor and outdoor
Fax: +9661 4623709
signage at various locations in Dukhan Township
including indoor directory and room signage at Country : Saudi Arabia
Dukhan Medical Centre, outdoor lighted building Closing Date : 23/12/2010
signage and logos at various buildings and
outdoor LED information display screen at the
Tender Name : Supply of Fuel
Main Gate.
2. Proposed installation of 320 no. aluminium Description : Tenders have been issued by the Directorate of
signage of approximately 250mm width x 211mm Water, Saudi Arabia for the supply of fuel for the
height for the recently completed storage Al-Taif water project.
racks/shelving at the new Record Centre at Bid Bond : QR 400,000
QPAA. Details : Complete bid documents can be obtained on
Bid Bond : QAR 100,000 payment of $135 from:
Details : Complete bid documents can be obtained on Directorate of Water,
payment of QAR 200 from: Riyadh 11195.
Qatar Petroleum Tel: (9661) 4761377
Contracts Department Corporate Division, Fax: (9661) 4012365
Room G11, 4th Floor, Country : Saudi Arabia
G Wing, Royal Plaza, Closing Date : 07/12/2010
Doha, PO Box 3212.
Tel: (974) 440 2000
Fax: (974) 483 1125
Country : Qatar
Closing Date : 05/12/2010
Please do submit your tender requirements to eo@theenergyinfo.com for effective and competitive bids
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22 - 23 Feb 2011 program at Wasit, north of Dahran.
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supplies by producing an additional 50 trillion cu.ft of non-
associated gas reserves by 2016.
22 - 25 Feb 2011
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28 Feb - 01 Mar 2011 EPC bids have been received for all the four onshore EPC
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and Planning first quarter of 2011.
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Aramco had pre-qualified the following 11 firms to bid for
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