Project Services Manager, Esso Exploration and Production Chad., Inc., 800 Gessner, Suite 400, Houston, Texas (Usa), Fax: (1-713) 973-5230

Y -- COTE D'IVOIRE: S1623 PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION SOL UN DEVELOPMENT BUSINESS ISSUE OF 05/31/95, POC Tel (202) 482-3399 FAX (202) 273-0927 The governments of the republics of Chad and Cameroon intend to apply for world Bank financial support for a portion of the investment in the Chad-Cameroon export Project if a final decision to develop oil resources in Chad is made, this Project will provide for the pipeline transportation of crude oil from the doba basin in southern Chad across Cameroon to a marine terminal on Cameroon's Atlantic coast near the town of kribi bid components it is expected to include a large diameter (greater than 24 inch) pipeline of approximately 650 Miles in length, four pumping stations and an offshore marine storage and off-loading facility Production capacity would be in the 150,000-250,000 barrels per day range civil and mechanical works will be procured for the Project a limited number of lunp sum, engineering- procure-construct contracts are planned for example, one or two contracts might be used for the installation of the pipeline procurement for those portions of the Project financed with funding provided by the world Bank will be in accordance with the world Bank procurement guidelines for international competitive bidding and will utilize standard bidding documents as appropriate contracting and procurement is currently being handled by Esso Exploration and Production Chad, Inc, as operator for a consortium (comprises of affiliates of exxon, shell, and elf) which has a permit for oil and gas Exploration in Chad pipeline construction and operations will ultimately be handled by two pipeline companies owned in art by Chad and Cameroon entities bids for some parts of this Project could be solicited as early as the latter part of 1995 since bidders for all contracts will be pre-qualified prior to the release of bids, companies and organizations interested in any of the above works are invited to express their interest by opening of bids N/a financing the Project is financed by the world Bank please information on other world Bank projects can be obtained from MS Janice mazur wb liaison officer multilateral Development Bank operations U S. department of commerce, room 1107 14TH street and constitution avenue, N W. Washington, D C. 20230 wb267-414/95 Please send a copy of your response to: Commercial Section (FCS TOP), American Embassy, Abidjan, Dept of State, Washington DC 20521 2010, Refer to T0058.. (0179)

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