Petronas New LNG Train in Malaysia Sets Up Engineers’ Contest
February 23, 2012, 3:56 AM ESTBy Ann Koh
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Petroliam Nasional Bhd. is asking engineers to compete for a contract to build a new liquefied natural gas train in Malaysia.
JGC Corp. will compete for the project against a joint partnership of Chiyoda Corp. and Saipem SpA, Malaysia’s state oil company said today in an e-mailed statement. Petrona plans to build a ninth train at its LNG complex in Bintulu, Sarawak, increasing output capacity by 3.6 million tons a year, it said. The project is scheduled to start in the fourth quarter of 2015.
The new train will require as much as 850 million standard cubic feet a day of natural gas coming from offshore fields near Sarawak, the company said.
Petronas plans to award the contract, including engineering, construction and commissioning, in December this year. The complex at Bintulu currently has eight trains capable of producing 24 million tons a year of LNG, according to the statement.
--Editors: Mike Anderson, Alexander Kwiatkowski.
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