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Amec Foster Wheeler win LNG contract in Timor-Leste

 

Amec Foster Wheeler announced that it has been awarded a pre-FEED (front-end engineering design) contract by the Government of Timor-Leste for the proposed Beaço Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant.

Amec Foster Wheeler’s scope for the US$3.8 million pre-FEED contract includes concept selection studies, development of technical design, development of procurement and construction strategies, project implementation plans, capital cost estimate and schedule for the overall project.

The work will be done in close consultation with TIMOR GAP, which is Timor-Leste’s National Oil Company. TIMOR GAP, is currently managing the implementation of Tasi Mane Project consisting of three clusters of development situated along 155 kilometres of Timor-Leste’s southern coast. The three are the Suai Supply Base, the Betano Refinery, and the Beaço LNG Plant.

The contract will be delivered from Amec Foster Wheeler’s LNG centre of expertise in Reading, UK, working with its team in Malaysia. Roberto Penno, Amec Foster Wheeler’s Group President for Asia, Middle East, Africa & Southern Europe, said “I am pleased that our LNG expertise and project delivery skills are helping to move forward a project which will contribute to the overall development of Timor-Leste. Our LNG Centre of Excellence in the UK will work closely with our in-country teams to deliver this work safely and sustainably.”

Amec Foster Wheeler designs, delivers and maintains strategic and complex assets for its customers across the global energy and related sectors.

With pro-forma 2014 annualised scope revenues of £5.5 billion and over 40,000 people in more than 50 countries, the company operates across the whole of the oil and gas industry – from production through to refining, processing and distribution of derivative products – and in the mining, clean energy, power generation, pharma, environment and infrastructure markets.
 

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