The Spanish Joint Venture of OHL Industrial and the engineering and technology group SENER has been awarded a contract EPC for the simultaneous modernization of two hydrocarbon plants of Petroleum Development Oman LLC (PDO), the foremost exploration and production company in the Sultanate of Oman, and a reference company worldwide in the Oil&Gas market.
The plants which will be modernized are the Saih Nihayda Gas Plant (SNGP) and the Saih Rawl Central Processing Plant (SRCPP), located in the central part of the country, in the Omani desert, near the city of Qarn Alam, 35 km from one another.
This project will allow PDO to maximize the recovery of hydrocarbon condensates present in natural gas that is extracted from the wells.
This contract has been signed according to the commitment for creation and maintenance of "In Country Value" (ICV) that PDO promotes and that the consortium has adopted though the incorporation of Omani staff in key positions of the project, and designing Omani sub-contractors, or otherwise the area of its geographic influence to increase local goods and services.
This is the first contract in Oman involving OHL Industrial and SENER, Oman is a strategic country in the Oil & Gas sector, with significant hydrocarbon reserves and where many projects are being developed and great investments are planned in the coming years.
Likewise, the contract enhances the position of both companies in Middle East. In 2013, OHL Industrial established a subsidiary company, OHL Industrial & Partners LLC, which along with the office in Abu Dhabi, strengthens its local presence in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) market, of high strategic value and growth potential.
At the same time, SENER’s arrival in Oman reasserts the group’s presence in the Middle East. Currently it has offices in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) and is taking on projects there, such as the light rail transportation system of Abu Dhabi, and also in neighboring Qatar, with its involvement in the Lusail light rail transportation system.
About SENER
For its part, the multidisciplinary company SENER is an international benchmark company in the power generation business, in which it develops engineering and construction projects, many of them on a turnkey or EPC basis. Among its main references are the combined-cycle plants San Martín, Manuel Belgrano and Bicentenario, in Argentina; Termozulia II and Termozulia III, in Venezuela, and Norte I, Poza Rica and Agua Prieta, in Mexico; the liquefied natural gas plant in Río Grande (Bolivia) developed for YPFB; three cogeneration plants in Mexico, two in Veracruz and a third one in the Francisco I Madero plant for Pemex Refinación; the liquefied natural gas regasification terminals SAGGAS in Spain, the Dunkirk terminal in France, and the Gate terminal in the Netherlands – which is one of the largest gas terminals in Europe - and the Zeebrugge plant in Belgium; noteworthy to mention are also the concentrated solar power plants, a sector in which SENER is the world-leading company with more than 25 facilities developed in Spain, USA, India, Morocco and South Africa. In addition, in the Energy and Environment area, SENER promotes renewable energy and waste to energy projects by implementing its own technology in plants such as Torresol Energy, Zabalgarbi, Tracjusa, Valpuren Comatur and Valpuren Bañuelo. In Brazil, SENER already develops projects for clients such as Odebrecht, Petrobras and BR Distribuidora and also promotes a used oil rerefining plant at Rio de Janeiro through the joint venture company BRF, an alliance with Petrobras Distribuidora.