CB&I was awarded a lump-sum contract to provide a gas processing and treating complex in Cabinda Province, Angola for Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited (CABGOC), a wholly owned Chevron subsidiary. The plant has a capacity of 25 million cubic feet per day.

CB&I's work scope consisted of the engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction, and commissioning of the gas processing and treating complex.  This complex helps CABGOC eliminate flaring of associated gas, recover hydrocarbon vapors from its oil storage terminal, and produce saleable natural gas liquids (NGLs). The project included facilities for oil-gas separation, vapor compression, amine treating for acid gas removal, glycol dehydration, refrigeration for NGL recovery, molecular sieve dehydration of hydrocarbon liquids, and liquids fractionation to produce NGLs for export and local consumption.  The complex uses residual gas to feed three turbines for electricity generation. CB&I’s execution plan involved modularization of the facilities in the USA in order to minimize field construction work.

Due to the high level of activity in the Malongo terminal, CB&I established a fully serviced accommodation camp, fabrication facilities, training facilities and project offices so that the project can operate on a self-contained basis. The field construction personnel were mobilized from as many as 27 different countries.

Consistent with CB&I's practice of using local resources and supporting local economies at its project sites worldwide, a portion of the site construction team for the project was staffed with local Angolan labor. Fifty percent of the personnel were recruited locally in Angola. CB&I established a training school in Cabinda City to provide training in safety, welding and general construction.

CB&I utilized its worldwide resources for this project.  Engineering and procurement was performed in CB&I's Houston office.  Equipment modules were fabricated in CB&I's various Texas fabrication facilities.  Project management for site construction activities was sourced from CB&I's Houston, Tyler, Dubai and South African operations.  The total work-hours for this project exceed 6 million.