Amoseas signs contract

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.
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