BJ Process and Pipeline awarded contract by Nippon Steel

Houston-based services company BJ Process and Pipeline Services has been awarded a major contract to provide pipeline pre-commissioning services by Nippon Steel Engineering Corporation on Phase 1 of the South Sumatra-West Java Gas Pipeline Project (SSWJ 1), an extensive underwater pipeline project in Indonesia owned by state gas distribution firm PGN, the company said in a release.

The 105-kilometre offshore pipeline stretches from Labuhan Sumatra to Cilegon, West Java. Once completed the SSWJ 1 will have a capacity of 250 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) transporting gas from Pertamina's Pagardewa field to industry and household users in the West Java area.

The contract calls for BJ PPS to provide flooding, hydrotesting, dewatering, swabbing, vacuum drying, nitrogen packing and purging, and calliper pigging services. This work will be carried out on a combined 105 km of pipeline.

This pipeline pre-commissioning operation is being managed by BJ PPS from its operations base in Singapore. Operations commenced in November, and are scheduled for completion in early 2007.(denny)