PAL, Nuovo, Total in deal

JAKARTA (JP): State shipbuilder PT PAL Indonesia, in cooperation with GE Nuovo Pignone, part of General Electric Power Systems division, has won a contract to supply compression modules to oil and gas producer Total Indonesie.

Under the turnkey contract signed recently, the two companies will design, engineer, build, fabricate, package, make full-load tests and deliver to site two compression modules to be installed on a new Total Indonesie platform at Tunu Field in the Mahakam contract area of East Kalimantan.

According to Nuovo, the modules are scheduled to shipped before the end of June 2000 and the station is slated to begin commercial operation by December 2000. (gis)