Project Profile
Value: US$300 million
Location: Abu Dhabi city, UAE
Capacity: Unknown
The Abu Dhabi gas grid will be the second district gas grid after the Sharjah gas grid. The proposed grid will supply gas to about 120,000 industrial, commercial and residential customers in Abu Dhabi. It will cover Abu Dhabi and the surrounding areas, Al Ain and Ruwais. The construction will start from Abu Dhabi city. The network will be considerably larger than the Sharjah gas grid. Pre-qualifications were submitted on 25th March 2003 for a FEED study contract covering a new natural gas network in Abu Dhabi. The FEED tender was issued on 19th October 2003 and the bid submission date was on 6th December 2003. Bidders for the FEED contract were Pipeline Engineering (PLE), Lootah BC Gas (Terasen Int’l), Mott Macdonald, Penspen International and Adventica. Ventures Middle East was bidding for the detailed market study (front end marketing studies) with some of the aforementioned bidders. On 23rd November 2003, the bid submission date was extended to 13th December 2003. The successful bidder in addition to preparing tenders for the EPC package would also be involved in the preparation of a detailed market study and engineering design, supply and installation of a network analysis system. Lootah BC Gas was appointed as the FEED consultant in July 2004. Companies responded by 18th October 2003 for the PMC contract. Four companies were understood to have responded to an initial inquiry for the post of PMC by the 18th October 2003 deadline. The deadline for initial query for the post of PMC was extended to 14th February 2004. Tender for the position of PMC was issued in July 2004 with bid submission during mid-August 2004. The management consultancy (PMC) contract was fianlly given to the UK\'s Hyder Consulting for the first phase of the proposed Abu Dhabi gas grid project.
After years of apparent inactivity, in 2015, ADNOC Distribution said that it was in the final stage of the FEED for the basic Abu Dhabi area network, comprising more than 600 km, which will shape the foundation of the local natural gas distribution system.
Operators:
GASCO: Operator with 100% interest
Contractors:
Hyder Consulting: management consultancy (PMC) contract for the first phase of the proposed Abu Dhabi gas grid project
Lootah BC Gas was appointed as the FEED consultant
Dodsal: EPC contract