A partnership of Japanese engineering giant JGC and South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction has been awarded the major contract for the four new liquefied natural gas trains for the Papua LNG project in Papua New Guinea.

Farhan Mujib: president of JGC Corporation, which operates the overseas engineering, procurement and construction business of the JGC Group. Photo: JGC HOLDINGS

JGC said the partnership was awarded the front-end engineering and design and engineering, procurement and construction estimation contract by ExxonMobil on behalf of the Papua LNG venture partners.