The repair work will cost an estimated $84 million and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2009.
Transgasindo had worked with Indonesian contractor Denvegraha and Norway's DNV to identify the impact of the buckles on the integrity of the 476-kilometre pipeline.
A fitness for service study was followed by an engineering critical assessment study after which DNV recommended that the trunkline be operated with a throughput of not more than 400 million cubic feet per day of gas.
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