Dolphin Energy announced the award of the line pipe supply purchase order for its new Taweelah to Fujairah Gas Pipeline (TFP) across the United Arab Emirates. The award has gone to Salzgitter Mannesmann International GmbH, who will manufacture the line pipe at the Europipe Steel Mill in Germany. This purchase order is worth more than $200 million and some 120,000 tons of X70 48-inch coated line pipe will be supplied. First deliveries are expected in the summer of 2008, with delivery completion in spring 2009.
The pipeline will link Dolphin Energy’s gas receiving facilities at Taweelah on the coast of Abu Dhabi with the ADWEA Power and Water Desalination Plant at Qidfa in Fujairah, on the UAE’s east coast. It will be laid over an environmentally approved cross-country route, through more than 240 kilometers of desert and mountainside.
Meanwhile, the bids for the design and construction of the TFP are due by January 31, 2008. Nine contracting companies were invited to bid in November 2007. The contractor will be appointed before summer, with site work due to begin shortly thereafter.
