Pieridae awards Goldboro LNG services agreement to Bechtel

Pieridae Energy Ltd. signed a services agreement with Bechtel Corp. to develop an engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning (EPCC) plan for Pieridae’s two-train 10 million tonne/year (tpy) Goldboro LNG plant in Nova Scotia, Canada. The plan is to be completed by Mar. 31, 2021. 

Other key deliverables in the services agreement include:

• Initiating a detailed review of the scope and design of Goldboro LNG.
• Delivering a final lump-sum, turnkey EPCC contract price proposal by May 31, 2021.
• Engaging the Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq First Nations, including their participation in building a large-scale work camp at the construction site.

Kellogg Brown & Root Ltd. (KBR) gave Pieridae written notice earlier this year that it was no longer prepared to negotiate and conclude a lump-sum turnkey EPCC contract in relation to Goldboro LNG. The move followed KBR’s announcement that it would be exiting lump-sum engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) work, a move hastened by the coronavirus pandemic (OGJ Online, July 14, 2020).

Bechtel earlier this year signed a fixed-price EPC contract for Sempra Energy’s 13.5-million tpy Port Arthur LNG plant in Port Arthur, Tex. (OGJ Online, Mar. 3, 2020).