ASIA

Guntong-E winner revealed soon

Speculation has emerged that ExxonMobil's Malaysian subsidiary, EPMI (ExxonMobil Production Malaysia Inc), will be awarding a contract to a domestic fabricator to build the Guntong-E gas compression platform. Although no details have been officially given, EnergyReview.net understands the contract is expected to be awarded within the next month or two.

Alfean Hardy, Malaysia

This new platform will be larger than EPMI's previous Larut project, which clocked in at around 6,000 metric tons. It will be an integrated deck design but will be linked to EPMI's Guntong-D platform via a bridge. It will house three unspecified Rolls Royce gas compressors and a Glycol system.

Guntong-E has no living quarters. Workers will be housed in the neighbouring Guntong-D platform. There will be no helipad either.

Once the project is awarded, EPMI is said to want the platform to be fully constructed and ready to sail out by August 2005. It will become part of EPMI's offshore Guntong fields, which are located off the coast of the state of Terengganu. The source did not reveal the expected cost for the construction.

Although no fabricator will acknowledge interest in the project, Energyreview.net has heard rumours that it will be one of the local big boys - like Ramunia, MSE (Malaysian Shipyard & Engineering) and SSE (Sime Sembcorp) - that is expected to land the deal.

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