Jan 18 | 2022
Dubai-Based Specialist Delivers 96 Units For LNG Plant
Dubai-based breakbulk specialist Al Faris is stepping up its focus on Iraq, successfully completing several heavy-lift moves for the country’s oil and gas industry since the turn of the year.
In one delivery, Al Faris’s prime movers and hydraulic trailers were brought into action in a series of convoys to shift some 96 components weighing up to 150 tonnes a piece for a natural gas liquids plant close to the Rumaila oilfield in southern Iraq.
Al Faris was also called to transport and install several oversized components including knockout drums and flare stacks weighing between 25 and 78 tonnes each for the giant West Qurna 1 oilfield, also in southern Iraq.
The heavy-lift firm’s hydraulic trailers carried the components, while its Liebherr cranes were mobilised for installation.
Al Faris has been operating in Iraq since December 2020, last year delivering breakbulk cargoes to West Qurna 1, West Qurna 2 and Al Faw.
“Although we have been set up in Iraq for only a year, our operations are running at full capacity, with multiple heavy transport, heavy lifting and skidding jobs in the civil, oil and gas and power generation industries,” said Alberto Pittaluga, Al Faris’s general manager in Iraq.
“We also have a couple of projects within the petrochemical industry in the pipeline.”
Al Faris’s Iraqi base is at Khor Al Zubair, a port city close to oil-rich Basra on the southern Persian Gulf. Local Iraqis comprise more than half of its in-country workforce.
According to Pittaluga, Al Faris’s heavy-lift hardware includes Liebherr cranes boasting capacities of up to 600 tonnes, hydraulic trailers with up to 120 axle lines, self-propelled modular transporters, or SPMTs, semi-trailers and a number of low-bed trailers.
Al Faris will be exhibiting at Breakbulk Middle East 2022, taking place on 1-2 February at the Dubai World Centre in Dubai.
