Petrofac, a U.K.-based energy contractor and a leading Middle East services provider before a 2021 bribery conviction and contracting suspension related to work in three countries in the region, won a $700-million EPC award from the national oil company in UAE, one of the three.
The contract, for work to expand the Habshan gas processing complex, is the firm’s first since its contract eligibility was reinstated last year. The Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. award, confirmed July 3 by Petrofac and the UAE firm, includes three gas compressor trains and associated utilities and power systems, and is intended to increase gas output for internal use and for export, and to produce blue hydrogen. It is part of an estimated $1.34-billion project to expand UAE’s natural gas pipeline network from about 3,200 kilometers to more than 3,500 km.