NPCC-led consortium wins $1.6b ADMA-OPCO Umm Lulu Package 2

Abu Dhabi: National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC), in consortium with Technip France Abu Dhabi, has been awarded by Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO), the contract for the EPC Work of Umm Lulu Full Field Development Project Package 2 (Process Facilities).

Throughout the duration of the contract, NPCC will be the consortium leader and be responsible for the overall delivery of the project.

The contract was awarded with an approximate value of $1.69 billion (Dh6.2 billion), at the conclusion of a competitive bidding process in which many international EPC contractors participated.

The contract’s scope of work consists of the detailed engineering, procurement, fabrication, offshore installation, commissioning and start-up of a large offshore super complex located in the Umm Lulu Field. The complex will comprise six bridge linked platforms including gathering, separation, gas treatment and water disposal facilities, utilities and accommodation modules. These platforms totalling over 66,000 metric tonnes will be fabricated at NPCC’s yard in Abu Dhabi.

The platforms will be installed by the floatover method, which allows a high proportion of the hook-up and pre-commissioning work to be completed onshore prior to load-out, and thereby significantly reduces both the duration and cost of the offshore commissioning phase. NPCC has successfully applied this specialised installation technique on several projects.

The project is scheduled to be completed in the first half of 2018.

This award, one of the largest in the UAE’s offshore industry, re-inforces NPCC’s leadership in the regional Oil and Gas EPC sector and is further testimony of its strong and lasting partnership with ADMA-OPCO. It supplements the recent award made directly to NPCC in the sum of approximately $765 million for the EPC Work of Umm Lulu Full Field Development Project – Package 1, comprising the detailed engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation, commissioning and start-up of six new Wellhead Towers, 90km of infield pipelines, 125-km Main Oil Line, 100km of Fibre Optic Cables and Brownfield Modifications to two existing wellhead towers in the Umm Lulu Field.

The Umm Lulu Field is located in the Arabian Gulf, 42km from Abu Dhabi, and its development is a strategic initiative of Adnoc and the industrial shareholders of ADMA-OPCO.