Trio take home British Columbia LNG FEED work

Pacific NorthWest LNG has doled out the work to a KBR-JGC consortium, Bechtel and another collaboration of Technip, Samsung and China Huanqiu, according to a statement Tuesday.

The collaboration between the subsidiary of Malaysia's state-runPetronas and Japan's Japex aims to export up to 12 million tonnes per annum ofLNG from Montney shale gas feedstock from a site near Prince Rupert.

The Pacific NorthWest LNG project also aims to hire 30 Canadian engineers and make them part of the

"This world-class engineering and design work provides a tremendous opportunity to begin the process of creating an LNG knowledge centre," Greg Kist, president of Pacific NorthWest LNG, said in a statement.

The project is currently under federal review, with Petronas expected to take a final...