ONGC to award Sudan pipeline contract to Dodsal
NEW DELHI, March 12 , 2004 (PTI) — The State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp is likely to award the contract for laying a 741-km petroleum product pipeline in Sudan to Mumbai-based construction firm Dodsal.
Dodsal was the lowest bidder among the six companies who bid for the engineering, procurement and construction contract of the 12- inch pipeline that will evacuate gasoil and gasoline from the 50,000 barrels per day Khartoum refinery to Port Sudan, company sources said.
Besides Dodsal, L&T, Gammon-Limak, Turkey, Engineers India Ltd, the consortium of Essar Construction Ltd and Stroytransgaz of Russia and Krasanodargazscroy of Russia with Expotec of Nodia combine had bid for the contract at the close of bidding on February 27.
Sources said Dodsal bid lower then ONGC’s estimated cost of 175 million dollar for laying the pipeline. Pipeline throughput is expected to be 826,000 tonnes per year (about 18,330 barrels per day) in Phase I and 2.54 million tonnes per year in Phase II.
The capacity of the Khartoum refinery, equally owned by the Sudanese Government and China National Petroleum Corp, is currently being expanded to 90,000 barrels per day.
Sources said the EPC contract is likely to be awarded by March end and the pipeline is expected to be ready for operations in 14 months.