UGL wins Santos LNG contract

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UGL wins Santos LNG contract

UGL Limited advised it has been awarded a new three-year contract by Santos GLNG to provide plant services for the operational phase of its Curtis Island LNG facility in Australia.

The contract has a total value of approximately $120 million over the initial term and includes options to extend the contract for a further four years, the company said in a statement.

Under the scope of the contract UGL will perform maintenance, shutdown, engineering and project services for Santos GLNG’s LNG facility.

UGL is expected to commence mobilisation of its workforce in the second quarter of the 2015 calendar year.

Santos GLNG is led by Australian company Santos in partnership with Petronas, Total and Kogas. The project involves ongoing gas field development in the Surat and Bowen Basins, a 420-kilometre gas transmission pipeline, and the construction of an LNG plant on Curtis Island, near Gladstone.

Santos GLNG is expected to deliver its first LNG cargo in 2015.

Source: LNG World News

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