Pearl has tendered two separate transport and installation contracts for 305 kilometres of offshore pipelines and two platforms at the Ruby project.

Meindo and Swiber bid $44 million for the pipeline job, $2 million less than the next lowest bid, from Italy’s Saipem, sources said.

However, Saipem managed to outbid the duo at $24 million for the platform deal.

Bids were also in last week for the engineering, procurement and construction of the central processing platform and a gas and liquids processing and living platform.

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