Leighton Welspun wins ONGC contract

Mumbai High: Leighton Welspun will replace dated production and transportation infrastructure.

A joint venture between Australia’s Leighton and India’s Welspun has secured a pipeline replacement project contract with India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corporation worth 14 billion rupees ($251.2 million), the company has announced.

The news confirms a report in Upstream earlier in June that the joint venture had offered the lowest tender.

Leighton Welspun’s Pipeline Replacement Project 3 follows the company’s completion of the Pipeline Replacement Project 2 in 2011, Leighton told the Australian Securities Exchange.

Work on PRP 3 will start immediately and be completed by mid-2014, with the work to cover ONGC’s Mumbai High and Heera Oil and Gas fields off India's west coast.

Much of the work to be done is for the replacement of production and transportation infrastructure installed in the…

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