Eight firms bid for PNOC gas pipeline design
Eight foreign companies with local partners are bidding for the engineering and design work of the $ 100 mm Batangas-Manila (BatMan-1) natural gas pipeline project of Philippine National Oil Co.-Exploration Corp., a PNOC-EC official said.
These government company has started doing a "quality, cost-based evaluation" of the bids submitted by the eight,
namely: Pacific Consultants International and JGC Philippines; Worley and Maunsell; Mott MacDonald; Gulf Interstate
Engineering; CB&I John Brown; Engineers India; J.P. Kenny; and the LG International-Hyundai-Korea Gas Corp.
consortium, PNOC-EC external relations head Rudolph Dimen said.
The evaluation includes technical and financial aspects of the bids, and should be completed in a month's time, he
said.
PNOC-EC last year started acquiring rights-of-way for the project so that use of government property could be
maximized in the design of the pipeline route. The front-end engineering design work is expected to begin in the last
quarter of 2004 and will last for about seven months, Dimen said.
"After this is completed, PNOC-EC will be coming out with the engineering, procurement and construction tender
package, which should be issued by the third quarter of next year.”
