Sofresid, Foster Wheeler to perform Dolphin upstream FEED contract

Dolphin Energy Ltd., which operates the $3.5 billion Dolphin gas project, has awarded a joint venture of Sofresid, a subsidiary of Bouygues Offshore SA, and Foster Wheeler Ltd. a $10 million front end engineering design contract for the upstream facilities for Dolphin.

Feb. 13, 2002

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By the OGJ Online Staff

HOUSTON, Feb. 13 -- Dolphin Energy Ltd., which operates the $3.5 billion Dolphin gas project, has awarded a joint venture of Sofresid, a subsidiary of Bouygues Offshore SA, and Foster Wheeler Ltd. a $10 million front end engineering design contract for the upstream facilities for Dolphin.

Dolphin is a consortium of UAE Offsets Group and TotalFinaElf SA. Enron Corp. previously held 24.5% of the project and would have operated the pipelines. It stake -- currently held by UOG -- is up for bid (OGJ Online, Dec. 3, 2001). BP PLC, Conoco Inc., ExxonMobil Corp., Occidental Petroleum, and Royal Dutch/Shell Group are said to be shortlisted for the stake.

The FEED contract covers two offshore production platforms, two subsea pipelines from the platforms to the port of Ras Laffan in Qatar, an onshore gas processing facility in Ras Laffan, a gas compression facility in Ras Laffan, two gas receiving and metering stations, and telecommunications and control systems.

The Dolphin project will supply gas from Qatar's giant offshore North Field to Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Sofresid will carry out the engineering for this project at its offices in Paris over 8 months. Its portion of the contract is $4 million.

Dolphin has also awarded four contracts worth $5 million studies to Fugro Survey (Middle East) Ltd., said the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' news agency. The contracts include an offshore geophysical and geotechnical survey, an onshore geotechnical and topographical survey, a midstream environmental assessment, and an upstream environmental assessment.