ENI, NOC award $1 billion contract for Libyan treatment plants

Agip Gas BV, on behalf of ENI SPA and Libyan state oil company National Oil Corp., has awarded a 1.2 billion euro ($1.03 billion) engineering, procurement, and construction contract for hydrocarbon treatment plants near Mellitah, Libya, to a consortium led by JGC Corp.

Jan. 31, 2002

By the OGJ Online Staff

HOUSTON, Jan. 31 -- Agip Gas BV, on behalf of ENI SPA and Libyan state oil company National Oil Corp., has awarded a 1.2 billion euro ($1.03 billion) engineering, procurement, and construction contract for hydrocarbon treatment plants near Mellitah, Libya, to a consortium led by JGC Corp.

The other consortium members are Technimont and Sofregaz.

The contract is part of the $4.6 billion, 1.8 billion boe development of offshore Block NC 41 and onshore Block NC 169 (OGJ, Oct. 13, 1997, Newsletter).

The development will produce 98,000 b/d of liquid hydrocarbons and 10 billion cu m/year of gas. Libya will use 2 billion cu m. The rest will be transported through a 32-in., 540-km subsea pipeline from Mellitah to Gela, Sicily, said ENI.

Greenstream BV, a company owned by Eni and NOC, is building the line and a 170-Mw compression station. The system will cost $1 billion, said ENI.

ENI and NOC will award five more contracts relating to the project in the next few months, said ENI.