The ITTs have been issued as two separate packages – one for Greece and one for Albania.
The scope for each of the contracts covers the delivery and installation of three new-build, approximately 15 MW gas turbine turbo compressors, including auxiliary equipment.
Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) Procurement Director Knut Steinar Kwindesland said “The gas turbine turbo compressor units are an integral piece of kit needed for the construction of TAP’s compressor stations. The compressor units will be provided by TAP to the EPC contractor(s) for the compressor stations.”
TAP will transport natural gas from the Shah Deniz II field in Azerbaijan to Europe. The approximately 870 km long pipeline will connect with the Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) near the Turkish-Greek border at Kipoi, cross Greece and Albania and the Adriatic Sea, before making landfall in Southern Italy.
TAP construction timing and other tenders issued
Construction of the pipeline is planned to begin in 2016 and, currently, will be split into five sections – three spreads in Greece and two spreads in Albania. TAP plans to award the contract for the onshore pipeline contract in the third quarter of 2015.
TAP recently released ITTs for the: