Technip wins contract for Bangka field project

By Romel S. Gurky

French firm Technip was awarded a ?substantial? subsea contract by Chevron Indonesia for the Bangka field project in Rapak PSC, approximately 70 km offshore the province of East Kalimantan.

For Technip, a ?substantial? subsea contract ranges from ?100 to ?250 million in value.

The contract covers engineering, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning and pre commissioning of flexibles, umbilical, and subsea structures.

Technip?s operating centers in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, will execute the contract and provide customer support, from conception to execution.

Technip will:
? fabricate the flexible pipes, at the Group?s Asiaflex Products plant in Tanjung Langsat, Johor, Malaysia;
? manufacture the umbilical at Technip Umbilicals? facility in Texas, USA;
? mobilize the Deep Orient, its multipurpose installation and construction vessel, for the installation phase of the project. She joined the fleet last year and works predominantly in the Asia-Pacific market.

KK Lim, President of Technip in Asia Pacific, stated: ?We are delighted to be awarded this new project. It demonstrates our differentiating advantage of having a unique vertically integrated value chain for subsea infrastructures to provide the most competitive solutions to our client.?

Editing by Johannes Simbolon