YLNG lets Yemen gas pipeline contract

Sept. 28, 2005
Yemen LNG Co., a subsidiary of Total SA, let a gas pipeline engineering, procurement, and construction contract to AMEC SPIE Capag, a UK-based international project management and services company, and its Yemeni partner Hawk International.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Sept. 28 -- Yemen LNG Co., a subsidiary of Total SA, let a gas pipeline engineering, procurement, and construction contract to AMEC SPIE Capag, a UK-based international project management and services company, and its Yemeni partner Hawk International.

The 2-year contract is worth more than $200 million, and covers the laying of 320 km of 38 in. pipeline, 25 km of 20 in. pipeline, and development of ancillary structures. Work is expected to start immediately.

The pipeline will carry gas from a field near Marib, 180 km east of Yemen's capital Sana'a, to an LNG terminal being built near Bal Haf in the Gulf of Aden (OGJ Online, Sept. 19, 2005).