CNOOC holding back over Kingfisher award

摘要

CHINA National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has yet to award an engineering, procurement and construction contract covering its Kingfisher project in Uganda, despite making a recommendation to the government about a year ago. Industry officials said CNOOC recommended a consortium of China's Offshore Oil Engineering Company (COOEC) and China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Company (CPECC) as its preferred bidder, but stopped short of making the award partly because of a tax dispute with local government. CNOOC has dismissed its project team, Upstream was told, although it is thought to have retained a skeleton staff in Uganda. The COOEC-CPECC consortium was bidding against UK-listed Pet-rofac, which was not favoured, it is claimed by sources with knowledge of the development, due to issues with its technical proposals and local content requirements.