Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd (Gasco) awarded Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPC) works contracts at the Habshan Sulphur Station and Pipelines, and Ruwais Sulphur Handling Terminal-2 to two parties on Tuesday, according to a Gasco press release.
Dodsal was awarded a contract worth approximately Dh1.75 billion with a completion schedule of 31 months. Also, a consortium of Techint, Italy, and Al Jaber Energy Services, Abu Dhabi, was awarded a Dh2.25 billion contract with a completion period of 36 months, the press release said.
The contracts are on lump sum turnkey basis for the Shah and Habshan Rail (SHR) Granulated Sulphur Transportation and Management Project. The project will transport granulated sulphur from the Shah and Habshan Stations to export terminals at Ruwais via rail and will replace the current transportation of liquid sulphur via tankers to Ruwais.
Liquid sulphur produced at the Shah and Habshan Processing Plants will be transported in pipelines to the Shah and Habshan Granule Plants to be granulated and loaded on railcars. The granulated sulphur will then be transported on the Union Railway system to the Sulphur Terminal in Ruwais where it will be unloaded and exported by ship to international markets, the press release added.
Onsite facilities
The main track connecting the new Habshan and Shah Granule Plants to Ruwais will be designed, constructed and operated by Union Railways.
Gasco said the Habshan Sulphur Granule Plant and Pipelines facility will be a new green field plant located approximately 16km south east of the existing Habshan Gas Plant Complex and about 32km south of the intersection of Highway E11 and Tarif (Abu Al Abyadh).
The plant will have a capacity of receiving, processing and granulating 11,000 tons per day (tpd) of liquid sulphur from Habshan Gas Plants and also includes facilities for storage of liquid sulphur and granulated sulphur, railcar loading and generation of required utilities. The liquid sulphur from Habshan Gas Plants to Habshan Sulphur Stations will be transferred through pipelines which will be based on SEET (Skin Effect Electrical Tracing) Technology.
The Sulphur Handling Terminal-2 (SHT-2) plant facility will be a new greenfield plant located in the Ruwais industrial area approximately 165 km southwest of Abu Dhabi City.
New terminal
Granulated sulphur will be transported by rail from Habshan and Shah areas to the SHT-2 located approximately 4.5km southeast of the existing Gasco Sulphur Handling Terminal (SHT). The SHT-2 facility is designed to receive 22,000 tonnes per day of granulated sulphur from both Shah and Habshan Sulphur Granule Plants
The facilities include unloading, granule storage and ship loading of elemental granular sulphur from railcars, and the supply of utilities from existing facilities within the Ruwais industrial area.
Granulated sulphur from railcars will be reclaimed from storage buildings, and transported by conveyors to quadrant-style ship loaders for export.
