Petronas lets contract for Malaysian LNG terminal

April 3, 2012
Petronas unit Petronas Gas Bhd. let a front-end engineering and design services contract for an LNG regasification terminal in Malaysia to Fluor Corp.

Petronas unit Petronas Gas Bhd. let a front-end engineering and design services contract for an LNG regasification terminal in Malaysia to Fluor Corp. The terminal will supply gas to an adjacent 300-Mw, combined-cycle electric power plant in the town of Lahad Datu, Sabah. The contract’s value was undisclosed.

Fluor said it will be using local subcontractors and suppliers for various facets of the project.

The engineering firm was previously part of a joint venture that provided Petronas with preliminary engineering services for an LNG liquefaction plant at the existing facility in Bintulu, Malaysia.

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Steven Poruban was hired as staff writer for Oil & Gas Journal in October 1998. Two years later, he was promoted to senior staff writer. In October 2004, he was then promoted to senior editor. He now serves as managing editor-news.

Before working for OGJ, Steven was a reporter for Gas Daily and editor of Gas Transportation Report. He attended Boston University then transferred to and graduated from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pa., with a BA in English in 1993.