Petronas Calls For RM100 Million SOGT Project Tender In Kimanis

KUALA LUMPUR, March 11 (Bernama) -- Petronas is calling for tenders for the RM100 million engineering, construction, procurement and commissioning of the Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal (SOGT) project in Kimanis, Sabah, the Dewan Rakyat was told Wednesday.

The tenders are open to qualified contractors and registered with Petronas, Minister in the Prime MInister's Department Tan Sri Amirsham Abdul Aziz said.

The SOGT project entails two main components -- site preparation work and engineering, construction, procurement and commissioning, he said when replying to an oral question from Datuk Seri Abdul Ghapur Salleh (BN-Kalabakan).

Ghapur had queried on the scope and cost of the project and the method adopted to appoint the contractors.

Amirsham said the tender for site preparation work was called via open tender to qualified Bumiputera contractors registered with Petronas including from Sabah.

The minister said the national oil company is also carrying out the Sabah-Sarawak Integrated Oil and Gas Project involving development of the upstream sector off the Sabah coast and the downstream sector in Kimanis -- SOGT and Sabah-Sarawak Gas

Pipeline (SSGP).

Under the integrated project, Amirsham said oil and gas produced from several offshore gas and oil fields in Sabah would be channelled to SOGT.

For the purpose, Amirsham said SOGT would have facilities to receive, store and export crude oil.

The SOGT complex will also have an office, operations, maintenance and a spare parts warehouse, be said.

The SOGT, slated for completion and ready for operations in 2012, will have the capacity to store 2.5 million barrels of crude oil and can handle 300,000 barrels of crude oil a day and about 1.250 per cubic million feet of gas a day.

Crude oil and condensate received by SOGT will be sold to domestic and foreign markets.

Part of the gas received by SOGT will be used to generate electricity for downstream industries while the balance will be channelled to the Petronas Liquefied Natural Gas Complex in Bintulu via a 500km pipeline to be built under the SSGP project, he added.-- BERNAMA

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