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ollowing a 40 years long history of At the time of writing, this mammoth project Shah Plant Panoramic
successful operations in GCC execution is proceeding “full steam ahead”, in a from West area
countries and particularly in Abu complex terrain and very exacting climatic condition,
Dhabi, since 2010 Saipem has naturally with different details on the various
managed four onshore contracts in packages the project completion is expected for the
F Abu Dhabi worth approximately fourth quarter of 2014. Most importantly, we are
US$5 billion, related to the Shah Gas Development pleased to see that – so far – the project has
Program (SGD Program). reached 90 million LTI man-hours free.
The program’s goal is to produce and treat 1 billion In general the development of the project faced
cubic feet of sour gas a day from the Shah Arab gas several challenges during its stages, starting from
reservoir, separating the sulfur from the natural gas. the engineering phase to the procurement,
The Abu Dhabi Gas Development Company Ltd. transportation of equipment and execution phases.
had divided the overall SGD Program into 11 EPC Since the beginning of the
Packages. Saipem had been awarded the following mobilization at site in March 2011 Saipem has been awarded
three, all on a EPC LSTK basis: Saipem has deployed its best three EPC packages of the
know-how acquired from its vast Shah Gas Development
• EPC Package 2: Shah Process Plant; experience, in order to set up the Program and later the
• EPC Package 3: Shah Sulfur Recovery Units; advance camp and its office in an design and construction of
• EPC Package 5: Shah Product Pipelines. area reachable only through a gatch the 246 km railway
road with no other facilities close to from Etihad Rail PJSC
Following the successful award and the initial it. The closest small town was at
execution of these contracts, at the end of 2011 130 km away from the site. Later
Etihad Rail Company PJSC awarded a further on, together with its subcontractors Saipem built a
contract for the design and construction of the 264 telecommunications facility by installing a fibre optic
km long railway line connecting Shah to Ruwais via cable and by setting temporary camps for around 30
Habshan. This railway will service both the Habshan thousand people. Also power was finally connected
and Shah sour gas fields. It will allow the to the camp with main electrical grid. Following the
transportation of granulated sulphur from these initial mobilization the structural material started to be
fields to the port of Ruwais. This last package was delivered to the site in June. The huge quantities of
awarded to a JV led by Saipem, which comprises material and equipment to be installed, the very
Maire Tecnimont and Dodsal. challenging construction schedule and commissioning

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