Eric Watkins
Senior Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, May 4 -- Indonesia will launch the tender for construction of a 1,219-km natural gas pipeline linking East Kalimantan to Central Java on May 24, following a 1-month delay.
Tubagus Haryono, chairman of Indonesia's oil-and-gas downstream regulatory body BPH Migas, said the delay allowed bidders time to prepare.
So far, the project has attracted five bidders (OGJ, Feb. 20, 2006, Newsletter).
The pipeline, projected to start up in 2009, will supply 1 bcfd of from fields in East Kalimantan to users in Central Java by 2009.
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