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The Dampier Bunbury Pipeline (DBP) awarded McConnell Dowell Constructors (Aust) Pty Ltd the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline (DBNGP) Stage 5B Looping contract in Western Australia. The project includes 440 km of 26” pipeline construction looping the existing DBNGP pipeline spread from Loop 0 near Karratha to Loop 10 east of Bunbury, W.A. This is carried out in eleven separate loops. The initial two loops to be constructed (Loops 9 and 10) are adjacent to and North East and South of Perth respectively. Loop 10 is the first loop to be commenced closely followed by Loop 9 which runs through the Swan Valley which includes both residential and vineyard areas. Construction Read more

The Company is pleased to announce that Dampier Bunbury Pipeline (DBP) has awarded McConnell Dowell Constructors (Aust) Pty Ltd the DBNGP Stage 5B Looping contract in Western Australia. The project includes 440 km of 26” pipeline construction looping the existing DBNGP pipeline spread from Loop 0 near Karratha to Loop 10 east of Bunbury, W.A. This is carried out in eleven separate loops. The initial two loops to be constructed (Loops 9 and 10) are adjacent to and North East and South of Perth respectively. Loop 10 is the Read more

The Company is pleased to announce the successful completion of horizontal directional drilling (HDD) works at Tanjung Priok, Indonesia on 14 February 2009 for PT Jakarta Tanker Terminal, a joint venture between Vopak and AKR. During the 11-hour pull back operation a 552 m long, 363 t pipe bundle consisting of nine steel and HDPE pipes ranging in diameter from 6 to 16 inches was pulled approximately 31 m below the sea bed. Read more

The Company is pleased to advise the first berthing of a vessel at Oiltanking’s new Merak Jetty, the first independent deep water terminal built in Indonesia. The Torm Mathilde, a fully laden 109,000 DWT ship, unloaded her cargo on 1 September 2009. PT Oiltanking Merak’s German parent, Oiltanking, is one of the world’s leading independent storage partners for oils, chemicals, and gases. Oiltanking owns and operates 68 terminals in 21 countries with a total storage capacity of more than 16.2 million m3.  The works have included design and construction of two berths for 500 to Read more

The Company is pleased to advise the McConnell Dowell Constructors Thai Ltd have been awarded the EPC contract for the IRPC Gas Pipeline project in Rayong, Thailand by PTT Public Company Ltd (PTT). The pipeline is required to transport gas from PTT’s Third Transmission Parallel Gas pipeline to downstream customers at the Integrated Refinery and Petrochemical Public Company (IRPC) at Rayong. The project will commence on Read more

The Company is pleased to advise the McConnell Dowell Constructors (Aust) Pty Ltd have been selected by ERM as the preferred ECI contractor for the Braemar 3 gas pipeline in Queensland, Australia.The scope includes the design, engineering, procurement, construction, testing and pre-commissioning of a 16’’ x X70 pipeline and its associated facilities.  The Braemar 3 pipeline will be tied in at the ’Kenya’ facility and will run generally south toward the New South Wales border for 155 km and connect to a new gas fired power plant.ERM intends to work with Macdow in an Early Contractor Involvement process with the aim of forming an EPC Contract by October 1, 2009. Read more

The Company is pleased to advise that McConnell Dowell Constructors Thai Ltd has been awarded the EPC contract for the Fourth Transmission Pipeline Interconnecting Pipelines Project by PTT Public Company Ltd (PTT). The Interconnecting Pipelines package forms part of the new gas transmission pipeline to transport gas from the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal at the Maptaput Industrial Estate near Rayong to a tie-in station on the existing Wang Noi to Kaeng Khoi Pipeline in Saraburi Province. The Interconnecting Pipelines package will provide for bidirectional transfer of gas between the LNG Terminal and the existing PTT Gas Separation Plant. The purpose of transferring the gas between the two facilities is to control Read more

The Company is pleased to advise that the HDD team on the IRPC Natural Gas Pipeline Project in Rayong, Thailand, successfully completed a 1,877 m long horizontal directional drill using the intersect technique on Wednesday, 2 June. The drill was completed using McConnell Dowell's American Auger DD625 rig in conjunction with two other HDD rigs supplied by our subcontractor, Strega. The team used the 280 tonne capacity DD625 rig to drill a 121/4" dia. pilot hole at depths of approximately 30 metres over a length of 1,817 metres. Due to the softness of the soil formation at the far end, steering past this point became difficult. This rig was equipped with the Read more

The company is pleased to announce that the team working on the IRPC Natural Gas Pipeline Project has achieved 500,000 man-hours without an LTI. Safe work practices implemented on the project have been focused on the key risks which include overhead power cables, buried services and traffic control. Sheet piling has been used extensively to support trenches in soft ground and provide stability for the buried parallel water mains. Directional drilling has been used extensively where the proximity of existing water pipelines would not permit the safe excavation of trenches. The recent introduction of Notevault, a telephone based reporting system has provided further improvements to the safety reporting system and the reporting Read more