Technip Awarded With TAP Onshore Contract

TAP selected Technip for a Project Management Consultancy (PMC) Services contract for the onshore section of the pipeline designed to transport gas from the Shah Deniz field to the European market. 

‘The PMC contract awarded to Technip will cover the onshore portion of the pipeline from Greece to Albania and in Italy. The services will include the overall project and site management, procurement and subcontracting for all the EPC packages throughout the engineering, procurement and construction phases, as well as warranty management and the project close-out’ reads a note released on Tuesday. 

The project completion is scheduled for the first quarter of 2020.

“This contract is an important milestone for Technip PMC. With this award, Technip will be able to reaffirm its strong project management capabilities, through the execution of a very prestigious project” Riccardo Moizo, Senior Vice President of Technip PMC, said in the note.  

The services will be mainly performed at TAP’s headquarters in Baar, Switzerland, and Technip’s office in Rome, Italy.

The TAP pipeline will start from the tie-in with the TANAP portion of the Southern Gas Corridor project, at the Greece/Turkey border. The pipeline will then go through Greece and Albania, to eventually cross subsea the Adriatic Sea to end in Puglia, Italy, where it will connect to the Italian natural gas network. 

At the moment, TAP is a joint-venture between BP (20%), SOCAR (20%), Statoil (20%), Fluxys (19%), Enagás (16%) and Axpo (5%). Statoil could soon sell its share to Italy’s Snam, as recently reported by Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera.