THE United Arab Emirates’ Dodsal Group has won an estimated $450 million contract to build two pipelines from a gas processing plant south west of Abu Dhabi to industrial users to the north east of the capital, Reuters reported citing two sources.

The 297-km pipeline will supply gas to Emirates Aluminium (Emal) and other industries in Taweelah, a new industrial hub between Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

“The contract was awarded a few weeks ago and work has begun,” one source involved in the project said in late August, adding that completion is scheduled for 2015. A source at Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Company (Gasco) confirmed the company awarded the contract to Dodsal.

Gasco is a joint venture between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) which owns 68 per cent and Shell (15 per cent), Total (15 per cent) and Partex (2 per cent).

Last year it was announced that Dodsal and  Atomenergomash  (AEM),  a Russian heavy  equipment  engineering  company that  specialises  in  nuclear  and  conventional  energy, had  agreed  to  co-operate  in  the  fields of  manufacture  and  supply  of  power  equipment  for  nuclear  power  projects,  thermal  power projects and the oil and gas industry in India. An MoU was signed between the two parties in Dubai.

The Dodsal Group was founded in Mumbai, India, in 1948 by the Nandlal Kilachand family as a trading company in partnership with a British trading firm (Dodwel) and Karsa Salem. The Group has transformed from a family trading enterprise into a multi-billion-dollar organisation under the leadership of Rajen A Kilachand.

A DIVERSIFIED GROUP
Today, it is a Dubai-based diversified multinational conglomerate which operates in the areas of trading and distribution; engineering, procurement and construction; exploration and production; casual dining restaurants, and manufacturing.

Engineering and construction is the flagship business of the Dodsal Group. As part of Dodsal’s EPC business, it undertakes engineering, procurement and construction projects as well as large-scale complex construction-only projects in the energy, industrial and infrastructure sectors, the company said.

Dodsal has been successfully executing projects across the energy, industrial and infrastructure sectors in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe for over five decades since 1960.

The company’s range of projects includes process plants for oil and gas field development, gas separation and processing, LNG plants, refineries, petrochemicals, tank farms, power plants for nuclear-based, gas-based and coal-based power generation; power transmission lines, sub-stations, railway electrification, onshore pipelines including oil and gas pipelines, slurry pipelines and water pipelines as well as offshore shallow-water pipelines.

The company is also engaged in the construction of pumping stations, desalination plants, fertiliser and chemical plants and metallurgical plants. Its building range includes mosques and hotels, roads, highways and bridges and canals.