By an OGJ correspondent
BANGKOK, Sept. 17 -- PTT PLC, Thailand's largest integrated energy group, has awarded contracts worth $1.1 billion to Samsung Engineering Co. of South Korea to build two natural gas separation plants, each capable of processing 800 MMcfd of gas.
The plants will be built on a turn-key basis in Rayong, about 180 km southeast of Bangkok for completion in March 2010, reported PTT executives.
The plants form part of a new gas system PTT is constructing to ramp up gas throughput from the Gulf of Thailand to meet the country's increasing appetite for energy.
PTT is completing a third trunk line that will provide a throughput capacity of 750 MMcfd, enhancing deliveries through decades-old transmission lines that are operating at capacity limits of 1,800 MMcfd (OGJ Online, June 22, 2007).
