Five international companies have submitted bids to build the proposed natural gas-fired power plant at Wales, West Bank Demerara.
Guycan Consortium ($549,088,000 USD), China Energy Int’l Gr. Co Ltd. ($466,649,772 USD), China Machinery Engineering Inc., ($696,001,776 USD), Power China Int’l Group Ltd. ($703,652,256 USD) and Lindsayca Inc. & CH4 Guyana Inc. ($898,764,244 USD) are the bidders.
Bids were opened last Tuesday at the National Procurement and Tender Administrative Board (NPTAB) for the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment project, which will see the construction of an onshore natural gas liquids (NGL) and natural gas processing plant (NGL Plant) located at Wales.
Already, ExxonMobil affiliate, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), has made a contingent award of the contract for the construction of the pipeline to the Subsea 7 and Van Oord consortium.
It also awarded a contract to TechnipFMC to provide engineering, procurement, construction and installation of subsea risers and pipelines once the project gets the greenlight.
The pipeline is expected to land at Crane/Nouvelle Flanders, West Coast Demerara and make its way to Wales on the West Bank of the Demerara.
EEPGL has said that the project will involve capturing associated gas produced from crude oil production operations on the Liza Phase 1 (Destiny) and Liza Phase 2 (Unity) Floating, Production, Storage, and Offloading (FPSO) vessels, transporting approximately 50 million standard cubic feet per day (MMscfd; 1.4 million standard cubic meters per day [MMsm3/d]) of rich gas via a subsea pipeline and then an onshore pipeline to a natural gas liquids (NGL) processing plant (NGL Plant), treating the gas to remove NGLs for sale to third parties, and ultimately delivering dry gas meeting government specifications for use at the power plant.
In addition to the bids for the construction of the power plant, bids were also opened last Tuesday for “Legal and Commercial Advisory Services and Negotiation Support” for the gas to energy project.
