Vietsovpetro lets contract for Vietnam gas line

March 10, 2006
Vietnam-Russia oil and gas joint venture company Vietsovpetro has let a contract to McDermott International Inc., a subsidiary of J. Ray McDermott SA, to install a 298-km, 18-in. natural gas pipeline as part of the Gas Power Fertilizer Coordination Project (OGJ, Oct. 24, 2005, Newsletter). Vietnam state-owned PetroVietnam operates GPFC.

Eric Watkins
Senior Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 10 -- Vietnam-Russia oil and gas joint venture company Vietsovpetro has let a contract to McDermott International Inc., a subsidiary of J. Ray McDermott SA, to install a 298-km, 18-in. natural gas pipeline as part of the Gas Power Fertilizer Coordination Project (OGJ, Oct. 24, 2005, Newsletter). Vietnam state-owned PetroVietnam operates GPFC.

J. Ray will perform construction engineering, partial procurement, and pipeline installation, including installation of a riser using its Asia Pacific-based marine vessels.

The firm said the PM3-Ca Mau gas pipeline will originate at the Bunga Raya B platform on Block PM3 in the Commercial Arrangement Area of the Gulf of Thailand and extend to a landfall station in Ca Mau province, Vietnam.

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