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Mitsui gets letter of intent for 400.000t line pipe for Dolphin pipeline
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Dolphin Energy issued Japan’s Mitsui & Company a letter of intent for supply of
400KT line pipe for the Dolphin gas pipeline project. The line pipe is the first major long-lead item to be awarded on the US$3.500 million project, which involves the construction of a pipeline with capacity of up to 3,000 million cubic feet a day from Qatar’s North field to the UAE. The two other bidders were Japan’s Marubeni Corporation and Europipe of Germany. The pipeline supply mandate covers the midstream element of the project only, which involves the supply of 370-440 kilometres of 48-inch-diameter pipeline, depending on which route is selected. It does not include yet the supply of the 70-kilometre upstream pipeline, which will deliver gas from platforms in the North field to the gas compression and processing plant to be built at Ras Laffan. The mandate also calls for Mitsui to provide a detailed financing proposal for up to 100 per cent of the value of the midstream engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, which is expected to be tendered soon. DEL has already prequalified four international bid groups for the Ras Laffan compression and gas treatment plant EPC package, which is now expected to be issued for bid in February. It is also close to finalising the prequalification lists for the sealine and platform EPC packages. Contract awards are awaited on four other long-lead item packages, covering the supply of compressors and gas turbines, heat recovery generators, steam generators and auxiliary boilers. |
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Gulf Steel to produce weld wire mesh
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Gulf Steel Industries Company Limited (GSIC) will commission soon a plant to
produce 30 KT/ year of weld mesh at its manufacturing facilities in Abu Dhabi. The company will produce weld mesh in dimensions of 6mm to 12mm conforming to BS 4483 standards by the beginning of January 2003. Established in 1992 with an initial capacity of 15,000tpy to manufacture deformed steel bars, the company went through continuous expansions and modernization over the past 10 years to reach a capacity of 100 KT/year of debars conforming to ASTM A 615, BS 4449 and SASO standards. GSIC currently produces deformed bars in dimensions varying from 6mm to 32mm. A plant to produce wire rods in coils for the wire and weld mesh industry with a capacity of 30,000tpy has been established. Added to it are two cold straightening cutting lines to manufacture cold ribbed wire cut to lengths conforming to BS 4482. In endorsement of its quality system, the company received its ISO 9002 accreditation. Employing 250 personnel, it plans to process 120,000 tonnes of steel products in 2003 and increase that to 160,000 tonnes by 2004. |
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Dubai to invest $40 billion in construction by 2005
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Dubai's construction sector is forecasted to invest over $40 billion in major
developments over the next 24 months. It is estimated that the cost of the
houses, hotels, apartments and shops of the Dubai Marina project itself will
exceed $4.4 billion. It is also estimated that a large percentage of construction expenditures will be spent on landscaping the emirate and its extensive coastline. |
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Medusa turns heads
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J. Ray McDermott project staff at the company's Jebel Ali fabrication yard
looked on with pride as the Medusa spar hull was successfully loaded out on to a
fast transportation vessel bound for the Gulf of Mexico. The Medusa spar hull. Dubai, UAE Last week's loadout, which took just over 22 hours from start to finish was the culmination of just over 18 months hard work fabricating the 11,300-tonne, 179-metre, truss spar hull for Murphy Oil Inc.'s Medusa project. Taller than the Dubai World Trade Centre and as wide as the Sheik Zayed Highway, the structure will be transported over 17,400km in just over a month to the Mississippi Canyon Block 582 and installed in 678m of water. For J. Ray's Jebel Ali yard this was a first-of-a-kind project. It was the first spar hull to be fabricated by a J. Ray McDermott company worldwide, and the first structure that the Jebel Ali facility has ever exported to the Gulf of Mexico offshore market. Project staff at the Jebel Ali facility are already busy constructing a second, similar truss spar hull for Murphy Oil‘s Front Runner deepwater development - again in the Gulf of Mexico. CONTACT: Louise Denly J. Ray McDermott/Public Relations - Dubai, UAE Tel: +971 4 883 5100 Fax: +971 4 8834 330 www.jraymcdermott.com. |
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