Meed | Work on OQ’s gas project in Sur to complete next year

Work on OQ’s gas project in Sur to complete next year

4 December 2024

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Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) works on Omani state energy conglomerate OQ’s project to increase gas processing and transport capacity in the Sur area are expected to be completed within the first quarter of next year.

The main contractor for the OQ central rich and lean gas segregation project is Oman-based Galfar Engineering & Contracting.

OQ awarded Galfar the contract for the project, estimated to be valued at $170m, in the third quarter of 2021.

Local firm Muscat Engineering Consultancy has performed the project’s front-end engineering and design works.

The project’s basic scope of work involves dedicating the main 48-inch pipeline between the Saih Rawl central processing plant (SRCPP) and Sur. This pipeline transports rich gas from Petroleum Development Oman’s Saih Nihayda gas processing plant (SNGP) and the SRCPP to feed consumers such as Oman LNG.

The scope of work also involves dedicating the existing 48-inch loop line from SNGP, and building a new 48-inch pipeline – covering 65 kilometres – to Oman LNG in Sur for lean gas for supply to non-LNG consumers, such as Omifco, Sur IPP, Al-Kamil IPP and the Sur Light Industrial Area.

Work on the project also covers gas quality blending at GNH, where the two 48-inch pipelines will meet, combining the lean and rich gas pipelines at the new Sur GSS and sending the mixed gas, using a new launcher, to the existing Oman LNG receiver.

Galfar has further sub-contracted part of the pipeline construction, welding and installation works to local firm Flowtech United.

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Indrajit Sen