UK supermajor Shell’s Bruneian joint venture has awarded Serikandi Kent Energy Solutions a five-year commissioning and start-up services contract for its activities in Brunei.
The partnership will work for Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP): the 50:50 joint venture between Shell and the Bruneian government.
Details and the value of this long-term contract — the first win for the Serikandi Kent Energy Solutions joint venture — were kept under wraps although Joe McCormick, Kent’s executive vice president for Asia Pacific, said the joint venture would be building up its local resources in tandem with the BSP work.
Serikandi Oilfield Services chief executive Revi Bhaskaran said: “We are excited that Serikandi Kent Energy Solutions has won this business.
“This is another step towards our vision of becoming Brunei’s first EPCM [engineering, procurement and construction management] company, supporting Brunei’s Wawasan 2035 goals of producing educated, highly skilled and accomplished people and building a dynamic and sustainable economy.”
Serikandi Kent Energy Solutions, which was established in October, is a Bruneian incorporated joint venture between Dubai-headquartered Kent and local player Serikandi Oilfield Services.
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It aims to provide integrated services including engineering, procurement and construction, and EPCM, to clients in the sultanate for greenfield and brownfield projects, asset integrity and rejuvenation.
One of the key projects on its radar is understood to be Petronas’ on-off Kelidang field development that could get off the drawing board very soon.