Enarsa Receives Offers for Piping Contracts

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Enarsa, Argentina's state-owned energy company, started the bidding process for 30-inch and 36-inch piping for the GNEA natural gas pipeline on July 3, 2007. The organization has received several offers for the tender after opening the bid envelopes September 6, 2007.

The companies that showed interest on the project for the construction of 97 kilometers (km) of 36-inch piping and 1,412 km of 30-inch piping come from companies in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Switzerland, the Ukraine, India and China. Among the companies that submitted bids, either individually or jointly, are Tubacero, the Mexican pipe manufacturer with its headquarters in Monterrey; Leman Commodities, Geneva, Switzerland; Siat (Tenaris) Buenos Aires, Argentina; Confab, Sao Paulo, Brazil; China Metallurgical and China Petrochemical, both located in Beijing, China, as well as China’s state-owned oil company, Sinopec; Jindal Saw Limited in Uttar Pradesh, India; Khartsyzsk Tube Works and Eurasian Pipe-Line, Donetsk Region, Ukraine; and Sumitomo Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.

According to statements from Enarsa’s authorities, the piping should begin to arrive in February 2008 and will be completely installed by June 30, 2009. The project will demand a $1.64 billion investment and will transport 27.7 MMSCMD of natural gas from Bolivia to Argentina. Argentina’s energy company has also stated that data packages for the pipeline turbo-compressors bids and the related GNEA pipeline are still available at Enarsa’s headquarters in Buenos Aires for those companies interested.

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