Shaw awarded Kamojang EPC contract

US engineering firm The Shaw Group Inc. announced Wednesday that an Indonesian subsidiary of its Shaw Stone & Webster unit has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract for a new 60 megawatt geothermal power plant by PT Pertamina.

The plant, which will be located in Kamojang, West Java, is the first Pertamina independent power project to sell electricity to Indonesia's national electric power utility, PLN. The work will be done in conjunction with PT Rekayasa, a construction company headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, and is scheduled to be completed in 2008.

Shaw is also working with Pertamina on other feasibility studies for geothermal projects in Indonesia, which has a geothermal resource potential of over 20,000 megawatts, the company said.

The company had previously executed several projects in Indonesia including the Suralaya coal-fired power plant, Darajat Stage II Geothermal Power Plant, North Duri Cogen Power Plant and others. (alex)