Oman Awards Key Gas Pipeline Project to Egypt's Petrojet

Gas transportation firm Oman Gas Company (OGC) has awarded Salalah Gas Loop Line project to Egypt’s Petrojet.

The pipeline project will boost natural gas supply to rapidly expanding Dhofar Governorate.

According to a report published in Oman Observer on Tuesday, Petrojet will lay a 32-inch diameter pipeline that starts at OGC’s gas compressor station in Nimr. The 85 kilometres pipeline will tie in with an existing pipeline at Marmul that runs all the way south to Salalah in Dhofar Governorate.

Petrojet’s brief, according to officials, is to undertake the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the loop line project based on a front-end engineering design (FEED) provided by OGC and enhanced by Tebodin Oman, the newspaper reported.

An official told Oman Observer that work is expected to start in February 2016 and is expected to be ready in a year’s time.