Muhibbah Engineering has been awarded a 150 milliion ringgit (US$35.6 million) contract to build and install a wellhead platform on the East Cendor phase one project off Peninsular Malaysia.

The engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract was awarded by Petrofac, which operates the East Cendor project in Block PM 304.

Work is scheduled to begin in the third quarter and is expected to be completed within 11 months.