The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project company said on Thursday it has
launched a pre-qualification process for the supply of onshore line pipes and
bends.
"The scope for this contract has been divided into six lots which
will be delivered to marshalling yards in Kavala and Thessaloniki in Greece and
Durres in Albania," TAP said in a press release.
The line pipes should
have total length of approximately 780 kilometres, total weight of 443,000
tonnes, a diameter of 48 inches and 36 inches respectively, it
added.
“TAP has divided this particular contract into six separate lots
in order to give the maximum opportunity for companies to prequalify," Knut
Steinar Kvindesland, procurement director at TAP, said.
TAP plans to
launch the pre-qualification process for offshore line pipes at the beginning of
2015.
TAP, with an approximate length of 870 kilometres, will transport
natural gas from the Shah Deniz II field in Azerbaijan to Europe. It will start
at Kipoi, near the Turkish-Greek border, and cross Greece and Albania and the
Adriatic Sea, before coming ashore in southern Italy. TAP’s routing can
facilitate gas supply to several SoutheastEuropean countries, including
Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and others.
TAP’s
shareholding is comprised of BP (20%), SOCAR (20%), Statoil (20%), Fluxys (19%),
Enagas (16%) and Axpo (5%).