Dubai Indian firm wins $230 m Sudan contract

DUBAI, July 06, 2004 (PTI ) — A Dubai based Indian engineering and construction major has secured three contracts worth $230 million in Sudan to cover all engineering, procurement and construction activities for an extensive oil pipeline system in the North African country.

The contracts secured by Dodsal are for a 741 km multipurpose pipeline system from the capital Khartoum to Port Sudan for India’s Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC), the Adar/Agordeed 31,000 barrels per day Field Production Facilities for Petrodar Operating Company and for a 280 km section of their crude oil export pipeline leading to Port Sudan.

The Sudan contract will bring Dodsal’s orders this quarter to a total of $500 million and will likely exceed the $1 billion mark early 2005, according to Mr Rajen Kilachand, President of Dodsal Group.

Dodsal successfully completed on time in March this year the first phase of another contract awarded to them by Occidental on a turnkey engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of Northern Oman Gas facilities covering gas from five locations.

Dodsal is also on course to complete the second phase of this project later this month, officials said. The company completed this month the entire mechanical and piping scope of work on the 5.2 million tonnes per year LNG project, their maiden venture in Egypt at Damietta as a joint venture executed with 90 per cent Egyptian national workers. –