Arabian Industries wins gas pressure reduction terminal deal
Arabian Industries wins gas pressure reduction terminal deal
Arabian Industries, a leading Omani mechanical, electrical and instrumentation contracting company, has been awarded a contract to construct a gas pressure reduction terminal (PRT) in the Sohar Industrial Port Area.
The project, involving an investment of around 7.5 million riyals, will supply natural gas at the required pressure to a number of mega-industrial ventures under development at Sohar. Like other PRTs located at Barka and Salalah, the new terminal at Sohar will be operated and managed by the state-owned Oman Gas Company (OGC), reported ONA.
With a design capacity of 21 million standard cubic metres a day (mmscm/d), the Sohar PRT is the biggest of its kind in the Sultanate, surpassing in size similar terminals built at Barka and Salalah. Its basic objective is to provide sustained gas streams to the petrochemical and industrial projects planned at Sohar.
To supply gas to these projects OGC has already commissioned a 32-inch pipeline from Fahud to Sohar.
Feed gas pumped at 90 bar will be stepped down to around 30 bar before it is channelled to the respective consumers.
The PRT will provide sustained gas streams at all times ensuring a reliable supply without fluctuations or shutdowns in the consumers' plants.
Besides, the PRT's design is such that it can be brought on stream without interruption to the customers' existing plant facilities. Separate pipelines will channel the gas from the PRT to the individual consumers. Fiscal gas metering units will also be installed to measure the flow of gas.
Among the first customers to be linked to the PRT are the $1 billion Sohar Refinery and a $600 million fertiliser plant under construction by Sohar International Urea & Chemical Industries (SIUCI). They will receive approximately 2.6 mmscm/d and 3.6 mmscm/d of gas respectively per day.
Provision has been made in the PRT's design to cater for other ventures proposed at the Sohar Industrial Area, including the estimated $400 million Sohar Methanol scheme and the multi-billion dollar aluminium smelter.
