ShawCor to coat pipe for Ichthys Gas Export Pipeline in Australia

TORONTO, Ont. - ShawCor Ltd. on Nov. 22 announced that its pipecoating division, Bredero Shaw, has received a letter of intent from Mitsui & Co. Ltd. to provide pipeline coatings and related products and services for the gas export pipeline on the Ichthys Gas Field Development Project.

The letter of intent is conditional on a Final Investment Decision by the Ichthys partners, Inpex Corp. and Total E&P, and the receipt of a purchase order and definitive production schedule detailing the start of production and the project duration.

Based on current estimates, the company's scope of work for the project is expected to exceed US$400 million.

The Ichthys gas export pipeline will transport production from the offshore central processing facility through a subsea pipeline to the onshore LNG facility to be located at Blaydin Point, Darwin, Northern Australia.

The pipe coating will involve approximately 900 km. of 42-inch pipe that will be protected with asphalt Enamel coating, SureFlo™ internal coating and HeviCote® concrete weight coating. The company will execute the work at Bredero Shaw's facilities in Kabil, Indonesia, and Kuantan, Malaysia.

EU begins seeking suppliers for pipe to build Nabucco Pipeline

VIENNA - The European Union's Nabucco gas pipeline took a step closer to becoming reality on April 23 when the consortium building it launched the process to find companies to supply the pipe needed for the project.
Nabucco Gas Pipeline International said it formally started the process to find a supplier for "long-lead items" - such as pipes and valves - needed for the 2,060-mile pipeline.
"The pre-qualification for long-lead items is a substantial step towards starting construction at the end of 2011," Nabucco managing director Reinhard Mitschek said.
Nabucco, estimated to cost $10.5 billion (7.9 billion euros), is intended to bring gas from central Asia to southeastern Europe, initially running from Azerbaijan to Ankara in Turkey and then on to Vienna.
The EU sees it as vital to energy security following a number of recent disputes that disrupted supplies of Russian gas to some countries in eastern and central Europe.