Oman’s leading engineering and construction contractor and industrial fabricator Bahwan Engineering Company (BEC) is currently working on key infrastructure, industrial, utility and residential contracts worth around $800 million, the company says.

These include the capital’s New Muscat International Airport and the New Salalah International Airport, southern Oman, BEC deputy general manager KA Prasad told Gulf Industry. Other major contracts the company is working on are the 2,000 MW Sur IPP in eastern Oman, the Ruwais Refinery Expansion in Abu Dhabi, the 750 MW Sohar IPP-2 in northern Oman and the Duqm Frontier Township in Oman’s central region.

At Muscat International Airport’s MC-1 package, BEC is the subcontractor to the CCC-TAV joint venture. BEC’s scope of work includes 34,000 tonnes of air-conditioning installations, the single largest in Oman, three 132/11 kV substations, 40 MVA of standby power generation and 70 11 kV/415 V secondary substations.

Another package related to the airport, MC-3, involves the new Airport Terminal Building and associated facilities. BEC is working there in a consortium that includes it, Bechtel and Enka. BEC’s scope includes MEP works for a passenger terminal building including various specialist systems such as fire alarm and fire-fighting, public address, IT Passive Network, BMS and Scada.

At the New Salalah International Airport, BEC is working on the MC-5 package as subcontractor to an L&T and Galfar joint venture. BEC’s scope includes complete central air-conditioning and a mechanical ventilation package for all buildings including a chiller compound and external chilled water piping.

For the 2,000 MW Sur IPP, BEC is working as a subcontractor for Daewoo E&C and is entrusted with accomplishing early works for the plant including site development and temporary site facilities including a camp, offices and a warehouse; performing civil works for BOP and utilities and mechanical works for Package B involving steam turbine generators, seawater intake and BOP systems and erecting temporary electrical power transmission and distribution facilities. The end user is the Phoenix Power Company/Oman Power and Water Procurement Company.

At the Ruwais Refinery Expansion, BEC is erecting steel structures and mechanical equipment and fabricating, installing and testing underground and above-ground piping for the end user Takreer. It is working on a contract with SKE & C.

Work on the 750 MW Sohar IPP-2 involves erecting and aligning two gas turbine generators of 250 MW and a steam turbine generator of 250 MW as well as erecting and aligning two HRSGs, erecting other mechanical equipment and auxiliaries and fabricating, erecting and testing underground and above-ground piping. BEC has been contracted by GS E&C. The end user is Al Bathina Power Company/Oman Power and Water Procurement Company.

BEC’s project at Duqm Frontier Township involves designing and building 94 villas, 250 apartments, landscaping and internal roads as well as a reverse osmosis plant and sewage treatment plant. It is working on the project in a joint venture that involves it and DSME.

BEC worked on the Marmul Polymer Flooding Project

COMPLETED PROJECTS

BEC completed recently several high-value projects, among them the Saih Rawi Depletion Compression Plant at a contract value in excess of $115 million and the National Psychiatric Hospital ($115 million). Other projects completed were the Marmul Polymer Flooding Project ($70 million), Sur Independent Water Project ($70 million), the Salalah Methanol Plant ($45 million) and Sohar Fertiliser Project ($45 million). The value of projects it executed in 2011 exceeded $500 million.

As well as taking multi-discipline construction projects, BEC specialises in facilities management in industrial, residential and commercial buildings and turnarounds and shut-downs.

It owns and operates a state-of-the-art 30,000 tonnes per year structural fabrication facility at Sohar that supplies fabricated industrial structures and PEB structures. BEC also represents more than 100 world-class principals in mechanical, electrical, chemical and industrial products.

“BEC has been a significant contributor to Oman’s industrial development in many ways, constructing most of the major industrial plants in Oman and being a major employer of Omani citizens across various divisions and projects of the BEC Group,” said Prasad.

“Important past projects by BEC in the sultanate have included Oman LNG and Qalhat LNG at Sur, the Sohar Aluminium smelter and a seawater intake project in Sohar.”