Brooke Dockyard triples fabrication capacity

KUCHING: Brooke Dockyard and Engineering Works Corp has tripled its fabrication capacity for offshore modules in the oil and gas (O&G) industry with the development of a second fabrication yard.

Chairman Datuk Abang Abdul Karim Tun Openg said Brooke Dockyard’s fabrication capacity had been raised to 25,000 tonnes per year from 8,500 tonnes per year with the commissioning of the Demak yard, which covers 24.4ha, along Jalan Bako here.

“We have invested some RM79mil in the phase 1 development of the Demak yard.

“The yard is equipped with fabrication workshops, a warehouse, site office and a loadout jetty,” Abang Karim added in a media interview recently.

The proposed phase 2 development will comprise an administrative building and other amenities.

He said the 105-year-old Brooke Dockyard had invested in the second fabrication yard as its Sejingkat yard covering 8ha had fully utilised its annual fabrication capacity of 8,500 tonnes.

Last month, Brooke Dockyard secured two offshore modules fabrication contracts worth RM479 mil from Petronas.

The first contract valued at RM290 mil was for the provision of front-end engineering design and engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning (FEED and EPCIC) of three wellhead platforms for Bokor Phase 3 redevelopment project in Sarawak.

The project, which is under Baram Delta enhanced oil recovery production-sharing contract (PSC), is to develop additional reserves. The PSC is operated by Petronas Carigali, a subsidiary of Petronas, in partnership with Sarawak Shell Bhd.

According to Abang Karim, Bokor is a milestone for Brooke Dockyard as it is the first project with full scope from FEED to EPCIC it has ever undertaken.

The second contract worth RM189 mil was for the provision of engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of one wellhead platform and jacket for Anjung gas development project, 200km offshore Bintulu in the central Luconia gas field.

Both wellhead platforms are expected to be installed in first quarter-2019.