An agreement is likely to be signed in November, said a source.

The job consists of detailed engineering and building a processing plant, next to the existing BG Tunisia Hannibal plant, and related facilities.

Several packages for offshore facilities are also under tender by the client, which is a 50:50 joint venture of the UK's BG Group and Etap. Petrofac has carried out the front-end engineering and design for Hasdrubal under a contract it won late last year.

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