However, COOEC is still working with Novatek and French engineering contractor Technip on the work scope for the award for the project in western Siberia, COOEC executive vice president Yang Yun told Upstream in an interview at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston.

Last month, Technip held additional “clarification” talks with contractors regarding six different tenders for hundreds of thousands of tonnes of module fabrication contracts for the Russia project.

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