Floating LNG terminal awarded for Indonesia

Nov. 2, 2010
Indonesia’s state-owned Perusahaan Gas Negara has awarded a project management contract for a floating LNG terminal to Foster Wheeler AG’s global engineering and construction group.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Nov. 2
-- Indonesia’s state-owned Perusahaan Gas Negara has awarded a project management contract for a floating LNG terminal to Foster Wheeler AG’s global engineering and construction group. The terminal will be built in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Foster Wheeler did not disclose the contract’s value.

Foster Wheeler’s scope of work includes technical assistance through the initial phase of development of the project, conceptual design of the terminal, basic design of the subsea and onshore pipeline as well as preparation and issuance of an invitation to bid for engineering, procurement, and construction, EPC bid evaluations, preparation of the EPC contract, and support to PGN in EPC contract negotiation.

Based in Zug, Switzerland, with operational headquarters in Geneva, Foster Wheeler will fill the role of owner’s engineer during the EPC phase of the project through to start-up of the terminal.