Leighton Asia News, July 2005 - Leighton Holdings

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Difficult conditions overcome at massive LNG project Leighton’s success on the preliminary stages of the Tangguh LNG project in West Papua, Indonesia, has resulted in the company securing a new US$40 million contract for the construction of a permanent camp at the project. Under the new contract for JGC/PT Brown and Root Indonesia Joint Operation, Leighton will design and construct a camp providing accommodation and facilities for 5,500 personnel. Leighton’s scope includes all buildings, furniture, equipment, services reticulation, roads, fencing, walkways and recreational facilities. Work on the project will commence immediately and is due for completion in July 2006. Fabrication of the buildings is being undertaken at Leighton’s own facility in Jakarta. Leighton has already completed two smaller camps – worth approximately US$10 million – at the same project. The initial camp went into operation in December 2004, and the second camp in May this year. In addition, the company secured a US$30 million contract in December last year for the site development, including earthworks, roads and landscaping, for the LNG plant. This is due for completion in November. All four projects form part of the consortium’s EPC contract with BP Berau for a 7.6 million tonnes per annum LNG plant. The plant will be constructed over a period of four years. With a total value of US$2 billion, it is one of the largest oil and gas projects under construction in South East Asia. The key to Leighton’s success has been its ability to mobilise temporary facilities, personnel and materials to an extremely remote site with no landing facilities, and in an area where the tide recedes up to 500 metres at low tide. The site lies within Bintuni Bay in the North West of West Papua. This is a greenfield beachhead site, with no infrastructure and no road access. The nearest airstrip is approximately one hour by speed boat from the site.
More telco work in Malaysia DiGi Telecommunications – one of Malaysia’s top telecommunications providers – is undertaking a significant expansion of its GSM 1800 mobile telecommunications network. As part of this, it has awarded a RM97 million contract to Leighton to design and construct close to 300 base transceiver stations. This important contract confirms Leighton’s position as Malaysia’s leading telecommunications infrastructure provider. Leighton is well experienced in this field, previously having undertaken a number of projects for Maxis in Malaysia, including constructing Phase 2 of its national optical fibre network and installing a series of base transceiver stations across the country. On this contract for DiGi, Leighton’s scope of work involves managing the installations from end to end starting with site identification and acquisition of the greenfield tower sites. These sites will be located throughout Peninsula Malaysia. The project then ranges through: > civil and structural design of the site infrastructure, substructure and support towers; > liaison with local authorities for site permit approvals; > constructing the foundation and infrastructure works; > fabricating and erecting the antenna support towers, which range from 45 to 76 metres high; > supplying and installing the equipment cabin, mechanical and electrical works; and power generation facilities (where required); > installing the antennas, feeders, DC power, transmission and BTS equipment supplied by DiGi; and > commissioning and integrating the telecommunication equipment. On average, the project will employ about 50 Leighton staff and 400 subcontract personnel. Leighton’s project manager, Paul Martin, said that managing the site identification and acquisition program is a vital aspect in ensuring the success of the project. “We will survey several alternative locations for each tower site and adopt a ranking system for each location, based on RF coverage, acquisition, construction and costing parameters,” Paul said. “This will ensure that DiGi receives sufficient information to make clear and informed decisions on the best positions for its transmitter sites. “Because there are so many construction sites, and they are scattered over an extremely large area, the logistics and the management of the construction works will also present a significant challenge. “We will develop a work schedule for each site and establish milestone checks to ensure the works are on schedule and meet our strict quality requirements,” he said. page 23
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