BANDUNG, November 4 (EngineeringDaily) -- Technip, an engineering and construction management company based in Paris, has won a substantial subsea contract by Chevron Indonesia for the Bangka development, a gas field project approximately 70km offshore the province of East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia, on the eastern edge of Borneo. According to Technip, the contract investment will range from €100 to €250 million.
The Technip contract covers engineering, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning, and pre-commissioning of flexible, umbilical, and subsea structures for the gas fields. Technip’s operating centers in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, will execute the contract and provide customer support from the project’s initiation to completion.
Technip plans to fabricate the flexible pipe for the project at the group’s Asiaflex Products plant in Tanjung Langsat, Johor, Malaysia. Meanwhile, they will manufacture the umbilical at Technip Umbilicals facility in Texas, USA. Technip will also mobilize the Deep Orient, a multipurpose installation and construction vessel, for the installation phase of the project.
President of Technip in Asia-Pacific Kwee Keong Lim stated that this project demonstrates the company’s differentiating advantage of having a vertically integrated value chain for subsea infrastructures to provide the most competitive solutions.
In December 2011, Chevron completed the front-end engineering design (FEED) for the deep-water Bangka Project and began the contracting approval process with the Indonesian government. The project scope includes a subsea tieback to a floating production unit (FPU). The company’s working interest in this concession is 62 percent.
By Isamail Al Anshori
