Operator Petronas Carigali has already asked to extend until December 2014 the bid validity for the Bardegg 2 and Baronia EOR platform tender, while sources said that the official award of the turnkey CPP contract will only be made after all the key approvals were in place.

Hyundai is up against McDermott of the US, a joint venture between France’s Technip and local contractor Malaysia Marine Heavy Engineering, a partnership of Italy’s Saipem and Malaysia’s SapuraKencana, China’s Offshore Oil Engineering Company with Petrofac, and Abu Dhabi’s National Petroleum Construction Company.