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Dana Gas charters world’s largest aircraft
Source: www.gulfoilandgas.com 6/10/2008, Location: Middle East
Transportation and Accessories
Dana Gas along with its project partner Crescent Petroleum, has chartered the world’s largest aircraft, the Antonov 124 (An-124), to transport a large load of equipment and components from Houston, Texas (USA) to Erbil, Iraq for use in Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum’s projects under implementation in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, at a cost of US$ 1.25 million.
The companies’ project is being implemented on a fast-track basis and involves a total investment of $650 million - the largest single private sector investment in Iraq since 2003. The project implementation includes upstream development and production, processing with state-of-the-art LPG plants, and transportation of natural gas through a new 180km pipeline, in order to provide urgently-needed gas supplies to cost-effectively fuel new power stations under construction, providing savings to the Government budget of over $2 billion annually in fuel costs. The project implementation will also provide work opportunities for over 2,000 Iraqi nationals of all ethnic groups, and provide comprehensive training in oil and gas operations for Iraq’s citizens.
The An-124 shipment consisted of essential project components weighing 58 tons that are to be utilized in the construction of two LPG plants which will be used to transport natural gas to new power stations being built in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. The equipment was loaded and secured carefully on the An-124 using the aircraft’s 10-ton gantry crane and a team of specialized personnel over a period of five hours.
Part of a requirement identified in the later stages of the project to add flexibility to the plant, the components were identified, acquired, airlifted to Adana airport in Turkey, and transported on flatbed trucks to the project site in a record delivery time of just three weeks.
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