The turnkey contract involves the engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning of the manned platform.

The contract execution will take about 15 months, suggesting the platform will begin operations by late 2013.

Bekok-C is a manned platform equipped with gas processing and compression capacity to treat output from the Guntong, Tiong and Bekok fields in Block PM9 off Peninsular Malaysia.

Petronas Carigali has hired a mobile offshore production unit from Malaysia’s Garuda Energy to replace the offshore platform after it was damaged in a blaze during a scheduled shutdown for maintenance in late 2010.

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