ECONOMY
TAP announces new contract notice for EPC contract
Baku, May 13 (AZERTAC). The Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) has announced its second contract notice for a major Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) contract.
The notice was published in the EU Gazette, the Official Journal of the EU.
The scope for this contract will include the engineering, procurement and construction of approximately 760 kilometers of cross-country onshore pipeline in Greece and Albania.
In addition to the pipeline construction, the contract will include the construction of 32 block valve stations along the route.
Construction of the pipeline is scheduled to start in 2016 and will be split into five lots - three in Greece and two in Albania.
This is the second pre-qualification, following a contract notice on construction of Albanian roads and bridges issued on April 15.
Companies interested in being pre-qualified for the onshore pipeline construction contract need to request a pre-qualification questionnaire from TAP no later than May 26.
The consortium also announced that the next contract notice to be issued by TAP in the coming weeks will be the pre-qualification of companies for the construction of compressor stations. The pre-qualification of companies for the Italian onshore pipeline section will be announced at a later stage, as part of another contract notice.
TAP will transport natural gas from the giant 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 coming ashore in Southern Italy. First deliveries to Europe will follow approximately since 2019.