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A tale of two fabricators C ompanies and
C ontact organisations covered
T hurs day, 2 February 2 0 1 2 during the past 30 days -
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“It’s really just started because the whole of Australia STORY IMAGE SLIDESHOW
has been in a recession for 18 months and it’s been Story Sea rch
very tough … a lot of businesses have gone to the Type Text Here
wall,” he told ENP.
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“They’re starting to talk about the project now in the
town. About two years ago I said Inpex is going to Commodity
come, no matter what. As soon as WA lost it to the
[Northern Territory] government I knew it was going Region
to come here.
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“So I spent a fair bit of money trying to get us into
this situation, and people questioned that, but I took a
punt and it’s come through.”
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With previous clients including PTTEP, Fingers has
been around for 18 years and is in the middle of Industry Search
preparing accreditation documentation to submit to
FEED winners JGC C orporation, KBR and C hiyoda
C orporation and to Inpex itself through the Northern
Territory Industry C apability Network.
Both Fox and Taylor say the growth potential for their
businesses out of potentially winning work on the
Ichthys project will be severely curtailed for the
simple reason most of the work will be done by
overseas operators, with the local companies merely
putting the pieces together.