India’s Punj Lloyd bags QP order for pipeline project

India’s engineering and construction major Punj Lloyd has bagged an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) order worth Rs8bn (QR650mn) from Qatar Petroleum for the Doha Urban Pipeline Relocations Project (DUPRP).
The DUPRP project involved the installation of 97.2km of new pipeline ranging in diameter from eight to 36 inches, a Punj Lloyd release here said. Punj Lloyd will also build three new booster stations and modify six more as well as decommission the existing pipeline and nine stations, it said.
Commenting on the contract, Punj Lloyd chairman Atul Punj said, “Punj Lloyd has a very strong presence in the Middle East particularly in the civil pipeline and process plants segment. With this order, we will further strengthen our foothold in the Middle East.”
Punj Lloyd is among the largest engineering and construction companies in India providing integrated design, engineering, procurement, construction and project management services for energy and infrastructure projects with operations spread across the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, Africa and South Asia.
Meanwhile, the Middle East Economic Digest (Meed) in its latest issue said Turkey’s Tekfen has won a $45mn contract to build the Umm Bab-Mesaieed main oil line. Tekfen’s contract calls for the laying of 80km of pipeline. Additionally, it involves some demolition work, Meed said. The project completion is set for early 2008.
The journal also said bids have recently been invited for the construction package on the Ras Laffan-Mesaieed ethylene pipeline project. For the ethylene pipeline contract, technical bids are due to be submitted on December 11. The project being handled by Qatar Chemical Company-II on behalf of Ras Laffan Olefins Company (RLOC) involves the construction of a 130-km-long pipeline with a capacity of about 145t/hour of ethylene.
The product will be delivered from the Ras Laffan Ethane Cracker, under construction by RLOC, to new downstream units at Mesaieed planned by Q-Chem II and Qatofin, a Qatar-France joint venture.