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ShawCor Ltd. announces contracts to provide pipeline coating services for the SSWJ Projects, Phases 1 and 2

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TORONTO, April 11 /CNW/ - ShawCor Ltd. (TSX: SCL.SV.A, SCL.MV.B) today
announced that its subsidiary, Bredero Shaw (Singapore) Pte Ltd., has received
awards with a total value in excess of US$30 million to provide anti-
corrosion, concrete weight coating, internal flow efficiency coating, anode
installation and custom coating for the South Sumatra to West Java
Transmission Pipeline Project (SSWJ) Phases 1 and 2 located in Indonesia. The
pipe will be coated in Bredero Shaw's new pipe coating facility at Kabil on
Batam Island, Indonesia. The owner of the pipeline is PT Perusahaan Gas Negara
(Persero) Tbk (PGN). Bredero Shaw's clients on the two phases of the project
include JFE Engineering Corporation, Nippon Steel Corporation and P.T. KHI
Pipe Industries.
The pipe to be coated by Bredero Shaw includes: 376 kilometers of 32"
pipe for Phase 1 which will transport natural gas from Pagardewa (South
Sumatra) to Cilegon (Banten), Indonesia and 100 kilometers of 28" and 32" pipe
for Phase 2 which will transport natural gas from Pagardewa to Labuhan
Maringgai (South Sumatra) and from Muara Bekasi (West Java) to Rawa Maju (West
Java), Indonesia.
Bredero Shaw has provided pipeline coatings for oil and gas projects in
the Far East region for over twenty years. Due to the increasing demand for
the company's pipe coating services, Bredero Shaw has recently completed an
expansion at its facility in Kuantan, Malaysia and has relocated and expanded
its coating facility on Batam Island, Indonesia at a new site with direct
deepwater port access in the Kabil Industrial Estate. These investments are
part of Bredero Shaw's continuing commitment to serve the growing Far East
market with technologically advanced anti-corrosion coatings, concrete weight
coatings and other related services.

ShawCor Ltd. is an energy services company specializing in products and
services for the pipeline, exploration and production, and downstream sectors
of the energy industry. Bredero Shaw, ShawCor's largest division, is the
global leader in pipe coating solutions and employs approximately 4,000
permanent and contract personnel located at offices and facilities in fifteen
countries. The division provides specialized coating systems and related
services for corrosion protection, insulation and weight coating applications
on land and marine pipelines including highly engineered corrosion and
insulation systems for deepwater applications.

This document contains forward looking statements, which are subject to
certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those reflected in such statements.