ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corp, has signed a $194 million contract with the Sudan Government for construction of a 741-km long multi-product pipeline.
"This is the maiden engineering and construction project of ONGC group abroad," a company release said.
Sudan Pipeline Project envisages laying of a 12-inch diameter pipeline from Khartoum Refinery to Port Sudan for evacuation of petro-products from Khartoum Refinery, capacity of which is being upgraded by Sudan.
The pipeline system is designed for a throughput of 0.826 million tonnes per annum in phase I and 2.54 million tones per annum in phase II, of gasoil and gasoline. The project is to be completed in 16 months.
The project will be undertaken by OVL with the design, engineering and project management support of ONGC's Engineering Services, Mumbai, which has experience of construction and maintenance of its own existing onshore as well as offshore pipeline network of over 10,000 km.
The consortium led by Dodsal Pte, Dubai, has been already selected as Engineering, Procurement and Construction contractor.
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