The winner of the contract might get another EUR200 million for additional work.
The company selected by tender according to the announcement placed with Romania’s electronic public procurement system SEAP will have to deliver two turnkey natural gas processing plants (which clean raw natural gas, making it suitable for delivery by pipeline to consumers).
The two plants will be located near the deposits in Madulari, Valcea County and Burcioaia, Vrancea County (southern and eastern Romania).
The two processing plants have been in operation since the eighties and currently turn out some 1.1 million cubic meters of pipeline quality dry natural gas or 4% of OMV Petrom’s daily hydrocarbon production, according to ZF’s calculations based on the latest quarterly report of the company.
OMV Petrom plans to replace the two processing plants because of the wear and tear of the equipment after thirty years in service, as shown by a survey conducted in 2010.
“The results of the survey showed that none of the equipment in Madulari plant can be safely used because of serious weld problems, non-compliance with design standards and the reduction of the thickness of the storage tank walls to less than the minimum standard level,” OMV Petrom officials say in the documents prepared for the project.
Inspection also showed that most of the equipment in Burcioaia and the pipelines around the stations, too, are in bad shape and need replacing.
Petrom expects bids until January 21, 2014. To be eligible for the contract, a bidder must have had average revenue of EUR80 million in the last three years and have delivered similar projects worth a total of EUR50 million.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)