The contract involves the coating of approximately 945 km of 18 inch pipe, which will be completed at the Bredero Shaw pipecoating facilities in Kembla Grange, Australia and in Kuantan, Malaysia. Coating will commence during the first quarter of 2010.
Marubeni-Itochu is providing pipe coating and logistics support for the QSN 3 Project. Pipe is being supplied from OneSteel, Orrcon and Japanese company JFE Corporation.
Nacap Australia was awarded the pipeline construction contract for the project in June 2009.
The QSN 3 Project incorporates the looping construction of the South West Queensland Pipeline, which runs between Wallumbilla in South East Queensland and Moomba in South Australia, and the QSN Link Pipeline.