Subscribe to our news feedExxonMobil awards contracts for Papua New Guinea Project
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Published on Saturday 12th December 2009
Energy firm ExxonMobil has handed out contracts for sections of its $15 billion (£9 billion) gas pipeline project in Papua New Guinea to Japans Chiyoda and JGC. Chiyoda and JGC will design and build gas processing facilities for the project. Each of the two production lines will be able to make 3.3 million tonnes of gas per year. It is expected that the order will be worth about $45 million (£27.6 million). Once completed the project in Papua New Guinea will produce 6.6 million tonnes of gas per year. Miles Shaw, a spokesman for Exxon Mobil, told Bloomberg: "The major work has now been awarded." A joint venture between Australian engineering company Clough and engineering and construction company CB&I has also received contracts to help build the project. As has another joint venture between engineering and construction firm McConnell Dowell and Consolidated Contractors Group Offshore. Chiyoda and JGC said the building of the plant will create employment, requiring 8,500 employees at the height of the work, according to Bloomberg. The construction is expected to be completed in 2013. 
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