TOKYO - Japan's Chiyoda Corp and JGC Corp have received an order to build production equipment for the Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas Project, the Nikkei buisness daily reported on Wednesday.

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The order is worth an estimated 400 billion yen ($45 million) and the contract will be signed as early as Wednesday, the business daily said.

The equipment will be for a $15 billion LNG project which U.S. energy firm ExxonMobil Corp (XOM.N) and partners gave final approval to on Tuesday. [ID:SYD486166]

Chiyoda and JGC will design and build two production lines, each capable of making 3.3 million tons of LNG a year. Construction is scheduled to be completed in 2013, according to the Nikkei. (Reporting by Nobuhiro Kubo; Editing by Kim Coghill)

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