GASCO Awards Habshan And Ruwais Sulfur Handling Plant Contracts
Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd (GASCO) announced on 3 May that it had awarded two engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for sulfur handling plants to be built on a lump sum turn-key basis for an estimated total of Dh4bn ($1.09bn). The Habshan Sulfur Granulation Plant contract was awarded to local engineering and construction firm Dodsal, while Ruwais Sulfur Handling Terminal-2 was awarded to Italian multinational Techint and the local Al-Jaber Group. According to a GASCO statement, the construction work is due to be carried out in parallel with the Shah-Habshan Ruwais Etihad Rail Project, which will transport granulated sulfur from the Shah and Habshan gathering stations to the Ruwais export terminals, and is intended to replace the current transportation of liquid sulfur to Ruwais in tankers (MEES, 4 April).
GASCO said that the Habshan sulfur granulation plant will have a receiving, processing and granulating capacity of 11,000 tons/day of sulfur from the Habshan gas plants, and includes also “storage of liquid sulfur and granulated sulfur, blocking, rail car loading and generation of required utilities.” The Ruwais sulfur handling Terminal-2 meanwhile will have capacity to process 22,000 t/d of granulated sulfur from both the Shah and Habshan granulation plants, and will “include the rail unloading, granulated sulfur storage and ship loading of granulated sulfur from rail cars, and the supply of utilities from existing facilities within the Ruwais industrial area.”
These projects are expected to deploy a workforce of around 5,000 at the peak of construction activities, of which around 3,000 will be in Habshan and 2,000 will be stationed in Ruwais. The front end engineering design (FEED) for the project was completed in mid-2010.
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