Three groups of global services contractors are preparing to battle for the giant onshore turnkey contract at the Arrow LNG export project in Queensland, Australia.
Liquefaction plant front-end engineering and design is nearing a conclusion, it is understood.
This will be followed by an invitation to tender for the engineering, procurement and construction management contract worth between US$12 billion and $15 billion.
A joint venture between Chiyoda, CB&I and Saipem is the FEED contractor.
The same alliance has been short-listed to compete for the EPCM contract against Technip with JGC Corporation and Clough, and a consortium of KBR, China Huanqiu Contracting & Engineering Corporation, Leighton Contractors and John Holland.
These were the same groups, along with Foster Wheeler and WorleyParsons, that had previously bid for...
