Wika-Chiyoda consortium files complaint over tender of gas facility at JTB field
Tuesday, October 4 2016 - 02:55 PM WIB
PT Pertamina EP Cepu (PEPC) is currently in the process of dealing with complaint filed by a participant of a tender held to select the EPC contractor for the planned gas processing facility at the Jambaran-Tiung Biru (JTB) field in Central Java.
?Information from the tender committee is that they are still dealing with complaint from one of the tender participants,? said Public and Government Affairs at PECP, Abdul Malik, to Petromindo.com on Tuesday.
He said that the complaint is likely to be filed by a consortium of PT Wijaya Karya Tbk and PT Chiyoda International Indonesia.
Last week, President Director of PEPC, Adriansyah told Petromindo.com that Rekind-JGC consortium offered the lowest bid for the EPC project.
The other bidder is the Wika-Chiyoda consortium.
Adriansyah added that Rekind-JGC consortium will be officially declared as the winning bidder following approval from the upstream oil and gas authority SKK Migas.
Adriansyah said previously that construction work was expected to start in early 2017.
The JTB project is expected to come onstream in the first quarter of 2019 with a production rate of 227 mmscfd of gas and a peak production of 315 mmscfd in 2019. The production will be sourced from six wells.
The Tiung Biru Jambaran field initially consisted of two fields: Tiung Biru and Jambaran. The government later decided to unitize the fields given that they are close to each other. The Tiung Biru field is located within Pertamina EP?s Cepu operations area which is adjacent to the giant Cepu oil and gas block jointly operated by ExxonMobil Cepu Limited (EMCL), a unit of ExxonMobil Indonesia, and PEPC. The Jambaran gas field is located within the Cepu block, which is operated by EMCL. EMCL and PEP agreed in September 2012 to unitize both fields with PEPC serving as operator.
Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak