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World Pipelines
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AUGUST 2015
STATS wins Middle East contracts
STATS Group has been awarded an emergency pipeline repair
system (EPRS) contract, worth in excess of £6.5 million. The
contract is for ten years work with a major LNG operator in the
Middle East.
STATS Group’s scope of work for this new contract includes
designing, manufacturing and testing pipeline isolation and
intervention equipment for a range of pipeline sizes – from 16 -
38 in. The contract includes the supply of double block and
bleed isolation tools, subsea monitoring and communication
systems, 32 in. and 38 in. BISEP intervention tools, and hot tapping
equipment.
Installation of isolation and intervention tooling suites will
provide positive isolation and a safe environment to carry out
effective repair on subsea and onshore pipelines, if they are
damaged.
STATS’ Middle East Business Development Manager, Vikas
Shangari said: “STATS has executed in excess of 40 isolation
projects in the Middle East, ranging from 2 - 48 in. on oil, gas and
utility pipeline systems.” STATS’ Middle East Regional Director,
Angus Bowie, said: “Our original contract with Qatargas has now
been followed with this significant award by another major
operator in the Middle East.”
Technip secures TAP project management
Technip has been awarded a project management consultancy
(PMC) services contract by Trans-Adriatic pipeline (TAP), which is a
joint-venture between BP, SOCAR, Statoil, Fluxys, Enagás and Axpo.
Technip will help oversee development of the onshore portion
of the construction of the Trans-Adriatic pipeline from Greece to
Albania and on to Italy. The French company swill work primarily
from its offices in Rome and those of the TAP pipeline consortium
in Switzerland.
BP, leading Azeri developments alongside a state-backed energy
company, has awarded more than US$1 billion in development
contracts since selecting the TAP as its option for Shah Deniz in
2013.
TAP is designed to transport natural gas from the second phase
of the Shah Deniz natural gas field off the coast of Azerbaijan as
early as 2019. Technip said the terms of its contract expire in the
1Q2020.
Riccardo Moizo, Senior Vice President of Technip PMC, stated:
“this contract is an important milestone for Technip PMC. With this
award, Technip will be able to reaffirm its strong project
management capabilities, through the execution of a very
prestigious project.”
Technip’s scope of work will cover overall project and site
management, procurement and subcontracting for all the EPC
packages throughout the engineering, procurement and
construction phases, and warranty management and the project
close-out.
Sempra Energy awarded Chihuahua gas
project
Sempra Energy has announced that its Mexican unit
Infraestructura Energética Nova, S.A.B. de C.V. (IENOVA), through
its subsidiary Gasoducto de Aguaprieta S. de R. L. de C.V., has
been awarded a natural gas transportation contract in
Chihuahua by the Comisión Federal de Electricidad.
The project will comprise a header facility with a capacity of
3 billion ft
3
/d of natural gas and an approximately 14 mile
pipeline with a capacity of 1135 million ft
3
/d of natural gas. The
pipeline will provide natural gas to the Norte III Combined Cycle
Power Generation Plant and will interconnect with Gasoductos
de Chihuahua, Tarahumara and Samalayuca-Sásabe pipelines.
The estimated US$108 million project is expected to be in
operation in early 2017.
“This award demonstrates IEnova’s capacity and experience
to generate value through our projects,” said Carlos Ruiz
Sacristán, Chairman and CEO of IEnova. “We are pleased to
contribute to the development of the energy infrastructure of
Mexico, and continue to strengthen our company’s presence in
the country.”
IEnova develops, builds and operates energy infrastructure
in Mexico. As of 2014, the company invested more than
US$3.5 billion in operating assets and projects under construction
in Mexico, being one of the largest private energy companies in
the country. IEnova is the first energy infrastructure company to
be listed in the Mexican Stock Exchange.
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IBM teams up with Columbia Pipeline
IBM has signed a technology agreement, worth approximately
US$180 million, to support Columbia Pipeline Group’s (CPG)
growth. The agreement is a five year IT services agreement
including cloud, mobile, analytics and security technologies.
On 1 July, CPG completed the separation of its natural gas
pipeline, midstream and storage business from energy infrastructure
company, NiSource Inc. As a stand-alone independent company,
CPG is expanding its operations to serve customers and markets. Its
net asset investments are expected to grow from approximately
US$4.6 billion in 2015 to US$13.5 billion by 2020.
IBM will deliver a range of services to provide the technology
infrastructure CPG requires to operate as an independent business
and support its growth plans. Under the technology agreement,
IBM will move CPG’s IT infrastructure and business applications –
human resources, billing and finance, pipeline operations and IT
management – from NiSource’s data centres and into a private
cloud in an IBM data centre. From the centre, IBM will separate
CPG’s networks from NiSource and manage its integrated IT
environment.
The technology will utilise IBM’s QRadar Security Intelligence
Platform. This will provide a unified structure for integrating
security information with event management, log management,
anomaly detection, incident forensics and configuration and
vulnerability management.
Bob Skaggs, CEO for CPG said: “IBM has been a long-time
technology partner for NiSource, providing solutions and services
that have helped that company become an energy leader in the US.
As an independent business, we are counting on IBM to help
provide the continued strong enterprise technology support CPG
needs.”
