Abu Dhabi: Dolphin Energy Limited, the Abu Dhabi state-controlled venture transporting natural gas to the UAE, said Monday that month-long maintenance planned at facilities in Qatar in February will cut fuel supply in half.
Work to inspect two gas-processing units at Ras Laffan and one offshore platform in Qatari waters will reduce fuel supply to one billion cubic feet a day from February 1 to 28, Dolphin Energy said in an emailed statement yesterday.
The maintenance will be conducted when gas demand is low and will be coordinated with consumers to reduce disruptions, Dolphin Energy said in the statement.
The company carried out similar maintenance in 2009 and 2010, it said.
Dolphin first announced plans for the maintenance in a newspaper advertisement published on Sunday. The company published a tender seeking two offshore accommodation rigs to support work at offshore platforms in Qatari waters starting February 1, according to the ad carried in Gulf News.
Dolphin issued the tender to hire the rigs for 28 days, with possible extensions of as much as two months.
The Dolphin pipeline, 51 per cent-owned by Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Development Company, imports about 2 billion cubic feet of gas daily under long-term supply contracts with state-run Qatar Petroleum.
