Oman Gas Company Sets Up Supply Gas to Shadeed

Oman Gas Company (OGC), the major gas company in Oman, added Shadeed Iron and Steel LLC in its list of customers. Shadeed Iron and Steel is a state of the art facility based in Sohar, one of many established in recent years to take advantage of the industrial area's strategic location and vital gas and water supplies.

OGC gas pipeline network is spread across the country with more than 2300 kilometers of high pressure transmission pipelines and ancillary facilities covering Fahud, Muscat, and Sohar in the north and from Saih-Rawl to Salalah in the south of the country.

In Shadeed's case, OGC undertook construction of a dedicated high tech supply station and 7.3 kilometers 16 pipeline. This project features the latest technology including pressure meters that monitor constantly within a + 1%t accuracy. Shadeed are now one of the Sultanate's most important natural gas customers, requiring some 1.4 million standard cubic meters per day.

For Shadeed, it was important that they be able to deliver a constant pressure of between 31 to 35 bar. To meet the requirement they had to design the whole supply station and pipeline, the metering and control systems to ensure that any variability in the supply would be well within these limits. They are looking to more than double capacity from their initial output.

Shadeed Iron & Steel hopes to benefit from the Sohar industrial area's easy supplies of gas, water and power and adjacent deep water loading facilities, to gain a competitive business advantage. The Company has also recently successfully completed two months ahead of schedule the commissioning of the new upgraded low pressure streams of Oman Cement Company (OCC) gas supply station. The upgraded low pressure stream having capacity 1.2 million standard cubic meters per day comprising control valves, enginery based flow metering system, UPS, ESD valves, new piping and associated modification in existing control systems.

This project has total cost about OMR 2 million. Oman Gas Company now supplies over 32 customers across the Sultanate including recent industrial additions like Shadeed, Salalah Methanol and the public water and electricity services. The Sultanate's vital natural gas supply is carried over a network of some 2,500 kilometers that OGC has upgraded and expanded to meet the needs of its customers.