PT Tripatra wins $316 million contract

PT Tripatra wins $316 million contract

JAKARTA (Antara): PT Tripatra Engineers and Constructors has been awarded a contract worth US$316 million to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facility for Mobil Exploration in Arun, Lhokseumawe, Aceh province.

The contract to construct the North Sumatera Offshore "A" (NSO A) plant was signed here Tuesday.

According to Tripatra president Pandri Prabowo, construction of the project would be carried out in three stages.

Firstly, building of an offshore production platform, secondly, construction of a marine pipeline, and the last stage will involve the building of an onshore gas purification plant.

The 5,500-ton offshore platform will be erected in a depth of 108 meters in a location 100 kilometers northeast of Lhokseumawe.

The gas produced by the platform will be transported through the 100 km pipeline to the purification plant for processing into liquefied natural gas.

The plant will have a production capacity of 450 million cubic feet per day (cfg/d), and the by products, including sulphur, will reach 236 tons per day.

At the NSO A project several other sophisticated equipment will also be installed, like a distribution control system (DCS) which will control and monitor the activities of the offshore platform from the land, he said.

Pandri said the LNG produced by NSO A, scheduled to be operational in July 1999, will be added to the current LNG produced in Arun.

Under the contract, Tripatra acted as main contractor in cooperation with PT Mc Dermott Indonesia and Toyo Engineering Corp. of Japan.

The "turn-key" project is the third major contract awarded to Tripatra under a production sharing contract between Mobil Exploration and the state oil company Pertamina.

Earlier, Tripatra signed a contract with Mobil to build an Arun Booster Compression unit worth $US326 million and a similar project in southern Lhokseumawe valued at $US36 million.