UAE’s National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC) has announced that it has secured a new contract with Adnoc Group’s Al Yasat Petroleum in conjunction with its joint venture partner, Petrofac and China National petroleum Corporation (CNPC).

According to a statement from the company, NPCC and Petrofac will provide front end engineering design (FEED) services for the Belbazem Block Development Project, offshore in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Scope of work will include the submission of a FEED package and proposal for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) of the facilities, with the execution of the EPCI work to be awarded on a design competition basis.

Ahmed Al Dhaheri, CEO of NPCC, said: “We are delighted to have won this competitive bid and participate in the design competition, and we look forward to the successful delivery of our scope in collaboration with our partners at Petrofac.”

Commenting on the partnership, Mani Rajapathy, EPS East Managing Director at Petrofac said: “This award continues to demonstrate our competitive profile in the UAE at the early stages of a project’s development.”

“It complements the wider contracts that we are already engaged in across the ADNOC Group, further deepening our relationship with an important customer in this core market,” he added.

“We are committed to supporting ADNOC’s expansion plans to increase their production capacity from four million b/d by the end of 2020 to five million b/d by 2030, and we look forward to executing more onshore and offshore projects in Abu Dhabi and the UAE,” Al Dhaheri concluded.