India's Punj Lioyd, Partner Win TANAP Contract

A joint venture of India’s Punj Lloyd and Turkey’s Limak has won the $409 million contract for 459 km of TANAP gas pipeline in Turkey.

The 50:50 joint venture was awarded the contract by TANAP Doğalgaz İletim A.Ş, Punj Lloyd said Thursday.

TANAP, The Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline roject, will be built to transport natural gas emanating from the South Caucasus Pipeline Company (SCPC) pipeline in Georgia and terminating into the TransAdriatic Pipeline (TAP) in Greece.

Punj Lloyd’s scope of the present project (Lot 4) is the second phase of construction from the new Eskisehir compressor station to the tie-in point of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP). The proposed natural gas pipeline is of 48” diameter and 459 km in length. The scope also includes 10 block valve stations, pigging facility (two within compressor stations, two at pigging stations) and tie-ins with metering stations.

The proposed pipeline section begins from compressor station 5A at Eskisehir in Turkey and travel through the vicinity of major cities like Eskisehir, Bursa, Balıkesir, Canakkale and Edirne.

The TANAP Project aims to bring natural gas produced from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz-2 gas field, and other areas of the Caspian Sea, primarily to Turkey and also on to Europe. The TANAP Project, along with the South Caucasus Pipeline (SCP) and the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) form the elements of the Southern Gas Corridor.

This is the second project for Punj Lloyd-Limak JV in Turkey after the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline.