Montrealers
December 20th, 2010, 09:04 PM
Upper Egypt Gas Pipeline
The government and the companies decided together to dedicate the gas produced from concessions in Egypt's offshore Mediterranean to the domestic market. The state-owned Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) has divided the country into areas for gas distribution, and awarded concessions to several foreign companies to build the necessary new infrastructure. Nile Valley Gas Company was awarded the concession of Upper Egypt, which extends 800 km with the border with Sudan. NVGC's activity is to handle the construction of pipelines, gas sales, billing of clients, collection of money and maintenance of the pipeline for a period of 25 years. Nile Valley will build the main gas transmission line to the south as well as the smaller distribution lines. In the first phase of the project, NVGC took over a pipeline built by the government from Cairo to the new Kuraymat power station near Beni Suef. The take off point started from new Kuraymat power station near beni suef city to feed all beni suef governorate. Phase two: extends 150 km from Beni Suef to Abu Qurqas with 32-inch in diameter, and costs $63 million. It will transport 50,000 m3/day gas to Orascom clay bricks plant, 350,000 m3/day gas to El-Mania Cement Plant, 1.2 million m3/day gas to El-Mania industrial area, 600,000 m3/day gas to El-Mania city and 850,000 m3/day gas to Abu Qurqas Sugar Plant. When phase 2 finished, the new extension of the gas grid will run from the 6th of October City to Assiut, covering 350 km. Phase three: extends 136 km from Abu Qurqas in Elminya to Assiut with 32-inch in diameter, and costs $75 million. Phase four: extends 100 km from Assiut to Suhag with 30-inch in diameter, and is scheduled for completion in 2010. Phase five: extends 408 km from Suhag to Asswan with 30-inch in diameter, and is expected to be complete by 2013. The project includes the design and construction of three compressor stations - two between Beni Suef and Assiut and one near Cairo. The whole pipeline has a design capacity of 24 million cubic metres a day (cm/d). The new gas pipeline for southern Egypt will be owned and controlled by the government in the end, it is being constructed according to a Build-Transfer-Operate (BTO) system. On 22 Dec.2006, The European Investment Bank (EIB) has financed a 50-million-euro loan to finance 115 km-long gas pipeline between Menia and Assiut.
http://www.oilegypt.com/webpro1/CUSTBIN/Petrojet/project02.asp?id=100802&id2=3131
The government and the companies decided together to dedicate the gas produced from concessions in Egypt's offshore Mediterranean to the domestic market. The state-owned Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) has divided the country into areas for gas distribution, and awarded concessions to several foreign companies to build the necessary new infrastructure. Nile Valley Gas Company was awarded the concession of Upper Egypt, which extends 800 km with the border with Sudan. NVGC's activity is to handle the construction of pipelines, gas sales, billing of clients, collection of money and maintenance of the pipeline for a period of 25 years. Nile Valley will build the main gas transmission line to the south as well as the smaller distribution lines. In the first phase of the project, NVGC took over a pipeline built by the government from Cairo to the new Kuraymat power station near Beni Suef. The take off point started from new Kuraymat power station near beni suef city to feed all beni suef governorate. Phase two: extends 150 km from Beni Suef to Abu Qurqas with 32-inch in diameter, and costs $63 million. It will transport 50,000 m3/day gas to Orascom clay bricks plant, 350,000 m3/day gas to El-Mania Cement Plant, 1.2 million m3/day gas to El-Mania industrial area, 600,000 m3/day gas to El-Mania city and 850,000 m3/day gas to Abu Qurqas Sugar Plant. When phase 2 finished, the new extension of the gas grid will run from the 6th of October City to Assiut, covering 350 km. Phase three: extends 136 km from Abu Qurqas in Elminya to Assiut with 32-inch in diameter, and costs $75 million. Phase four: extends 100 km from Assiut to Suhag with 30-inch in diameter, and is scheduled for completion in 2010. Phase five: extends 408 km from Suhag to Asswan with 30-inch in diameter, and is expected to be complete by 2013. The project includes the design and construction of three compressor stations - two between Beni Suef and Assiut and one near Cairo. The whole pipeline has a design capacity of 24 million cubic metres a day (cm/d). The new gas pipeline for southern Egypt will be owned and controlled by the government in the end, it is being constructed according to a Build-Transfer-Operate (BTO) system. On 22 Dec.2006, The European Investment Bank (EIB) has financed a 50-million-euro loan to finance 115 km-long gas pipeline between Menia and Assiut.
http://www.oilegypt.com/webpro1/CUSTBIN/Petrojet/project02.asp?id=100802&id2=3131