Technip wins Abu Dhabi gas facility contract

July 27, 2007
Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Co. has awarded Technip and the National Petroleum Construction Co. a $370-million EPC contract for Zakum gas processing facilities.

Offshore staff

PARIS –Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Co. has awarded Technip and the National Petroleum Construction Co. a $370-million EPC contract for Zakum gas processing facilities.

The project calls for a new gas compression platform with two gas turbine-driven centrifugal compression trains, a triethylene glycol dehydration unit, an air cooler, and a vapor recovery system to connect to the existing lower Zakum platform.

Technip will provide the engineering and project management while NPCC will provide the fabrication and offshore installation. Purchasing will be done jointly.

The facility is scheduled to be in operation Jan. 2010.

07/27/2007

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