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Oman waits on Dolphin flows



By Upstream staff 

Oman expects to begin receiving natural gas through the Dolphin Energy pipeline from Qatar in the first quarter of next year, Oil Minister Mohammad bin Hamad al-Rumhy said today.

"Maybe by the first quarter of next year," he told Reuters when asked when Oman would receive gas.

"We are waiting for the Dolphin project, I think they have a delay of a few months, I understand," he said on the sidelines of an oil conference in Riyadh.

Last week, Dolphin Energy said it was on track for the full commercial launch of gas imports from Qatar to the United Arab Emirates in the first week of June.The project is due to extend further south to Oman.

The pipeline, which is already carrying 400 million cubic feet per day to the UAE emirate of Dubai, is the first cross-border gas line in the Gulf region.

Mubadala Development Company, run by the government of Abu Dhabi, holds 51% of Dolphin Energy, while Total and Occidental Petroleum each have 24.5%.

Rumhy said Oman is still in talks with Iran over a gas pipeline, but declined to give a timeframe for the project.

"We're negotiating various aspects of the project - price, the technical side, pipeline, who-owns-what, the role of governments (and) companies in both Iran and Oman," he said.

"All these things are under discussion now, these things take time."


Wednesday, 02 May, 2007, 17:40 GMT  | last updated: Wednesday, 02 May, 2007, 17:40 GMT

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