By an OGJ correspondent
NICOSIA, Apr. 14 -- Oman Gas Co. (OGC)'s 48 km, natural gas pipeline spur from the Fahud-Sohar pipeline at Mahdha to Buraimi at the UAE border is moving ahead. Corinth Pipeworks SA of Greece received a $5 million contract to supply the 24-in. pipe by Jul. 1, and construction is slated to begin soon thereafter.
Oman Oil Co. is financing construction of the $18.6 million gas spur, while OGC will assume supervision of construction, operation, and maintenance of the pipeline.
The spur will link Oman to the regional gas grid planned by Abu Dhabi's Dolphin Energy Ltd. (DEL). It will tie into DEL's network at Al Ain in the UAE to deliver 135 MMcfd of Omani gas until 2006 through a 182 km, 24-in. pipeline to the 656 Mw Fujairah electric power plant and its associated 100 million gpd desalination plant, now under development by Union Water & Electricity Co. at Qidfa. The bidirectional spur can later become an import pipeline should Oman choose to source gas from abroad (OGJ Online, Jan. 22, 2003).
