Perth-based switch room manufacturing specialist Lowrie Constructions has won its second contract on the US$15 billion PNG liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Papua New Guinea.
The company announced today it had been contracted to build and supply the project's marine terminal control shelter at Port Moresby.
The new LNG processing plant is currently under construction in Port Moresby and the Lowrie facility will be installed there on the end of the project's main jetty.
"The marine terminal facility at Port Morseby requires significant engineering as being located at the end of the jetty, it is open to the sea and wind elements of the southern coast yet has to perform demanding technical and electrical tasking," said Lowrie Construction's General Manager Mr Adrian Poyner.
This is the terminus for the gas and liquids subsea pipeline which runs to Port Moresby from Kopi further to the west and which is itself the sea terminus for the gas and oil flows originating in the PNG highlands.
The highly engineered control shelter installation will cover two storeys and be built in modular format at Lowrie's manufacturing complex south of Perth.
Construction is expected to commence within three weeks and will take 12-14 weeks to complete prior to export.
Late last year the company was awarded a contract for three separate telecommunications facilities in remote areas of the inland pipeline route, extending from the southern Highlands and western provinces of PNG to Kopi.
Lowrie is wholly-owned by South Australian-based private equity firm, Paragon Private Equity.
