Qatar Petroleum is to build a further grass roots refinery at Mesaieed Industrial City to process crude oil from the Al Shaheen field situated about 180km north of Doha and operated by Maersk Oil Qatar AS.
The field, first developed in 1994 (discovered in 1992), produces over 260,000bpd but could be producing over 400,000bpd over the next five years if demand and processing capacity allow (over $2.5bn has already been invested in the field).
AL SHAHEEN REFINERY
Construction is expected to start by the end of 2008 and the call for bid tenders for the Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract was made in early January 2008 and expressions of interest were due in by mid-January.
"Al Shahhen is a grass roots refinery at Mesaieed Industrial City."
The whole project cost including the refinery and pipeline has been estimated at $5bn. Qatar Petroleum will finalise the prequalification and invite bids for the lump sum EPC construction contract by May 2008 and will finalise the contract in November 2008 with construction beginning shortly after.
Interest has been shown by a number of companies including: Daelim Industrial Company, GS Engineering & Construction, Hyundai Engineering & Construction Company and SK Engineering & Construction, Technip of France, Foster Wheeler and Washington Group International.
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