State-owned Sonatrach has provisionally let a contract to a subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont SPA, Milan, to provide engineering, procurement, and construction services for implementation of a fourth LPG processing train inside Sonatrach’s existing ZCINA gas processing complex in central Algeria’s Hassi Messaoud area.
As part of the lump-sum contract valued at $248 million on a multicurrency basis, Tecnimont will deliver EPC activities for the new train, which will have an 8 million-cu m/day capacity for extraction of LPG and condensate from associated gas coming from plants nearby but outside the battery limits of the ZCINA complex, the service provider said.
This project will be an extension to the existing ZCINA LPG complex, which features three LPG trains Sonatrach commissioned in June 2013 to increase production of LPG and condensate from Hassi Messaoud field, Maire Tecnimont said.
The service provider said it expects the provisional EPC contract award to be confirmed soon after finalization of contract annexes with Sonatrach, which will then issue a final award notice.
Maire Tecnimont, which anticipates a formal contract signing to take place by the end of September, said, if approved, the project would be completed within 30 months from the start of construction.
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