11 March 2009
Dolphin Energy said yesterday it had resumed full gas supplies to the UAE following a partial shutdown for maintenance at its facilities in Qatar.
The Middle East's largest gasline venture said it had just completed a five-week routine maintenance and inspection programme at its production and processing installations at the industrial port of Ras Laffan in Qatar, which controls the world's third largest gas wealth after Russia and Iran.
"The partial shutdown allowed essential maintenance work to be carried out on the Stream 1 facilities of the Dolphin gas processing plant and one production platform at Ras Laffan in Qatar," Dolphin said in a statement.
"The work was completed as planned and finished on February 26. And a gradual increase in the supply of natural gas through the export pipeline linking Qatar with the UAE has since taken place... The company gradually ramped up production and achieved its regular maximum throughput of two billion standard cubic feet of natural gas a day on March 1."
The $5-billion (Dh18.3bn) Dolphin project, which was launched nearly eight years ago, involved the construction of a 364-kilometre subsea pipeline that traverses the Gulf sea across the shores of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Gas began flowing into Taweela just outside Abu Dhabi city last year at a rate of 1.6 billion cubic feet before supplies surged to nearly two bcfd this year.
Supplies through the pipeline include around 788 million cubic feet per day for the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority, 730 mmsf/d for Dubai Supply Authority, 141 mmsf/d for the Union Water and Electricity Company and 200 mmsf/d for Oman Oil Company, which began receiving gas last month.
Dolphin Energy is owned 51 per cent by Mubadala Development Company, on behalf of the Government of Abu Dhabi and 24.5 percent each by Total of France and Occidental Petroleum of the US.
Dolphin Energy said yesterday it had resumed full gas supplies to the UAE following a partial shutdown for maintenance at its facilities in Qatar.
The Middle East's largest gasline venture said it had just completed a five-week routine maintenance and inspection programme at its production and processing installations at the industrial port of Ras Laffan in Qatar, which controls the world's third largest gas wealth after Russia and Iran.
"The partial shutdown allowed essential maintenance work to be carried out on the Stream 1 facilities of the Dolphin gas processing plant and one production platform at Ras Laffan in Qatar," Dolphin said in a statement.
"The work was completed as planned and finished on February 26. And a gradual increase in the supply of natural gas through the export pipeline linking Qatar with the UAE has since taken place... The company gradually ramped up production and achieved its regular maximum throughput of two billion standard cubic feet of natural gas a day on March 1."
The $5-billion (Dh18.3bn) Dolphin project, which was launched nearly eight years ago, involved the construction of a 364-kilometre subsea pipeline that traverses the Gulf sea across the shores of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Gas began flowing into Taweela just outside Abu Dhabi city last year at a rate of 1.6 billion cubic feet before supplies surged to nearly two bcfd this year.
Supplies through the pipeline include around 788 million cubic feet per day for the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority, 730 mmsf/d for Dubai Supply Authority, 141 mmsf/d for the Union Water and Electricity Company and 200 mmsf/d for Oman Oil Company, which began receiving gas last month.
Dolphin Energy is owned 51 per cent by Mubadala Development Company, on behalf of the Government of Abu Dhabi and 24.5 percent each by Total of France and Occidental Petroleum of the US.
By Staff Writer
© Emirates Business 24/7 2009
