India ONGC invites bids for Sudan pipeline

NEW DELHI, India, Feb 15, 2004 (Sudan Tribune) –India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp has floated an international tender seeking offers from companies or consortiums for engineering, procurement and construction of a 741-km products pipeline in Sudan.

Bids are due by Feb 27, as per information on the company’s website since 10 February.

The 12-inch pipeline will evacuate gasoil and gasoline from the 50,000 b/d Khartoum refinery to Port Sudan.

Pipeline throughput is expected to be 826,000 mt/year (about 18,330 b/d) in Phase I and 2.54-mil mt/year in Phase II, ONGC said. The capacity of the Khartoum refinery, equally owned by the Sudanese government and China National Petroleum Corp, is currently being expanded to 90,000 b/d.

The pipeline is expected to be ready for operations 14 months from the award of the EPC contract Mar 10, 2004.

ONGC’s overseas arm ONGC Videsh Ltd earlier won a contract to construct the pipeline, and modernize and expand the capacity of the government-owned Port Sudan refinery from 25,000 b/d to 100,000 b/d.