German engineering giant Siemens has signed a contract with Dolphin Energy, headquartered in Abu Dhabi, to extend for an additional 18 years the existing service agreement for aero-derivative gas turbine trains operating at the Dolphin gas project.
Under terms of the new agreement, Siemens will provide service and maintenance for the nine industrial Trent 60 aero-derivative gas turbines with nine Dresser-Rand DATUM centrifugal compressors operating at Dolphin Energy’s gas compression and processing plant, located at Ras Laffan, Qatar, Siemens informed in a statement.
The contract will be managed locally through the Siemens Qatar team in Doha and at the main operational site at Ras Laffan Industrial city.
The Dolphin gas project, involves the production and processing of natural gas from Qatar’s North Field and transportation of the dry gas by subsea export pipeline from Qatar to the UAE, which began in July 2007.