Tunisia: ABB, Thermo Design to build gas treatment plant

Switzerland’s ABB Group announced on 30 September that it had signed a turnkey contract to build the Nawara gas treatment plant at the Ghannouch industrial district near Gabès, as part of the €500m ($634m) South Tunisian Gas Project (STGP). The project was awarded by OMV Tunisie Production GmbH, a subsidiary of Austria’s OMV (AE 279/17). Nawara will be developed in consortium with Canadian company Thermo Design Engineering Ltd in a deal worth $291m in total. Nawara will separate commercial natural gas from heavier hydrocarbons which will be processed to produce propane, butane and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to be stored in tanks.