Pertamina awards development contracts

Pertamina awards development contracts

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

State oil and gas firm PT Pertamina has awarded two-year
contracts to three construction and engineering firms to build
production facilities at its gas fields in South Sumatra.

Pertamina spokesman Hanung Budya Yukyanta said the engineering
procurement construction (EPC) contracts were awarded to PT
Rekayasa Industri, PT Inti Karya Persada Tehnik and Mitsubishi
Heavy Industries Ltd.

"The natural gas development project in South Sumatra is
expected to supply 250 million cubic feet of gas per day (MMSCFD)
to West Java, starting in mid-2006," Hanung said on Thursday in a
presrelease.

The first contract involves a US$33.01 million construction
project for a natural gas receiving facility in West Musi, and
was awarded to PT Rekayasa Industri and Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries, Ltd.

The second contract, a $135.92 million construction project
for a gas transmission pipeline linking West Musi and Pagar Dewa,
was awarded to PT Inti Karya Persada Teknik.

The third, awarded to PT Inti Karya Persada Teknik, is a
$69.81 million construction project for a receiving facility in
Merbau and a transmission facility in Pagar Dewa.