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Dolphin to trim Qatar flows for 2008 work



By Upstream staff 

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Dolphin Energy will halve gas imports to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from Qatar for two to three weeks in the first quarter of 2009 for scheduled maintenance, the company said in a statement.

Exports through the pipeline during the shutdown will be around 1 billion cubic feet per day, half the 2 billion cfd that the pipeline is expected to carry through 2009, Dolphin said.

Dolphin will carry out work on one platform and one gas processing facility, the company said yesterday, Reuters reported.

The Dolphin project linking Qatar's giant North Field with the UAE and Oman was the first cross-border gas project in the Gulf Arab region.

The $3.5 billion project began importing gas it produced from its own wells at Qatar's North Field in July. The 364-kilometre subsea pipeline linking Qatar to the UAE was finished earlier and has been carrying gas from Qatar to the UAE since March 2007.

Mubadala Development Company, run by the government of the UAE's Abu Dhabi, owns 51% of Dolphin while France's Total and US Occidental each have a 24.5% stake.


Monday, 21 January, 2008, 00:58 GMT  | last updated: Monday, 21 January, 2008, 00:58 GMT

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