Three consortia are in the fray for the lucrative engineering, procurement and construction contract — Italy’s Saipem and Malaysia’s SapuraKencana, South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries with Malaysia’s Ranhill Worley and France’s Technip with local fabricator Malaysia Marine & Heavy Engineering.

The bid submission deadline was pushed back due to technical changes being made to the design of the wellhead platform, which are understood to also have implications for the central processing platform, said sources.

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