Amoseas signs contract

JAKARTA (JP): Amoseas Indonesia Inc. of the United States signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with the AEC consortium for the second and third units of the Darajat geothermal power station in West Java.

Pertamina, the state-owned oil company assigning Amoseas to develop the geothermal field in Darajat, said in a statement here yesterday that the consortium, comprising of Stone & Webster Engineering Corp., Process Engineers Inc., AEC International Projects Inc., Hyundai Engineering Co. Ltd. and Kanematsu Corporation, will construct the units each with a generation capacity of 70 megawatts (MW).

The construction of the second unit is scheduled to be completed in the fourth quarter of 1998 and the third in the first quarter of 2000.

Amoseas, acting as the legal representative of Chevron Darajat and Texaco Darajat of the United States, produces geothermal steam at Mount Darajat under a joint operation contract with Pertamina.

Amoseas currently supplies geothermal steam for the first unit of the Darajat power station. The first unit, with a generation capacity of 55 MW, is operated by PT PLN Pembangkit Listrik Jawa Bali I, a subsidiary of the state electricity company PT PLN. (10)