Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA) awarded the Dutch company, Frames Process Systems B.V. (Frames), a multi-million Euro contract for the delivery of the Dew Point Correction Units (DPCU) for Bergermeer Gas Storage in the Netherlands.

The scope of supply comprises the design engineering, procurement, manufacturing, prefabrication, inspection, testing, and supplying of the materials for two independent DPCUs. The process installation will include 12 state-of-the-art vertical Silica Gel adsorption towers positioned in two production trains. The DPCUs will also include zero emission electrical heaters, heat exchangers and air-coolers. Frames will design and supply the complete process installation in segments which will be assembled on location in Alkmaar. Delivery of the DPCUs is expected end 2012 / beginning 2013.

The DPCUs are a crucial element of the zero emission gas treatment and compression facility being built in Alkmaar. The units remove the heavier hydrocarbons and dry the natural gas before it is transferred to the Gas Transport Services (GTS) network for delivery to customers.

Jacques Melman, Managing Director Frames, commented: “After two years of international competition, we are extremely pleased with TAQA’s decision to award this major DPCU purchase order contract to Frames. TAQA continues to set stringent environmental requirements for the project and we believe their decision is testimony to our ability to supply technologies and products that minimise environmental impact during the production and operational stages. With an increasing public focus on environmental protection and sustainable technologies, the demand for cleaner and more efficient processing is growing rapidly.”

This contract follows a long-term partnership involving, among other TAQA oil and gas assets, the TAQA-operated Alkmaar Peak Gas Installation (PGI) in the Netherlands. TAQA’s PGI, operational since 1997, is an underground gas reservoir transformed to store and deliver gas to the Dutch national grid to meet additional consumer demand in the winter months.

The Bergermeer Gas Storage project will create Europe’s largest open access gas storage facility. Bergermeer Gas Storage will provide the Northwest European gas market with 46 TWh (4.1 billion cubic metres) of seasonal storage, thereby almost doubling the Netherlands’ total storage capacity. The project is one of the Netherlands’ largest infrastructure projects and will provide a long-term boost for the Dutch economy. The construction of Bergermeer Gas Storage will offer 3,300 man-years of employment of which 2,650 will be performed in the Netherlands.

TAQA received the final statutory approvals and permits to construct and operate the facility in May 2011. Bergermeer Gas Storage operations will start in 2013 with full commercial operations in 2014.
 

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