Australasia area report
More Australian contracts rolled out
Major Australian energy projects continue to fuel the offshore support industry, with a number of contracts being announced recently
by Dave MacIntyre
awarded in recent weeks is Technip, which has secured a flexible pipe supply lump sum contract for the Ichthys gas field. The contract was awarded by Inpex Corporation. The Supply A – Production & Gas Export Lines Contract includes 3km of smooth bore 10in flexible gas export risers and 3km of 12in production risers. Technip’s operating centre in Perth will execute the contract with the flexible risers being manufactured at Technip’s flexible plant in Le Trait, France. The contract is scheduled to be completed in 2015. The Ichthys LNG project is a joint venture between Inpex (the operator with 76 per cent) and Total (24 per cent). Gas from the Ichthys field, in the Browse Basin approximately 200km off Western Australia, will undergo preliminary processing offshore to remove water and extract condensate.
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The 889km Ichthys gas export pipeline will transport production from the offshore central processing facility to the onshore LNG facility to be located at Blaydin Point, Darwin, northern Australia. The Ichthys project is expected to produce 8.4 million tonnes of LNG and 1.6 million tonnes of LPG per annum, along with approximately 100,000 barrels of condensate per day at peak.
mong the beneficiaries of contracts
Ichthys field
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The Ichthys LNG project is located offshore Western Australia Deepwater engineering company Intecsea is
another organisation that is winning contract work in Ichthys, being awarded the design engineering contract for the project. The award by McDermott means Intecsea will be involved in project management and design engineering of the flowlines, riser systems, subsea structures, umbilicals and control system. Two contracts have also been announced between the JGC Corporation, KBR and Chiyoda Corporation joint venture (JKC JV) and BAM Clough joint venture for the design and construction of the Ichthys LNG project module offloading facility (MOF) and the Ichthys product loading jetty. The BAM Clough joint venture is a 50/50 joint venture between BAM International and Clough Ltd.
The jetty design consists of two separate vessel load-out berths, one for LNG carriers and a second for LPG/condensate carriers. Construction is scheduled to commence in early 2013 with project completion expected at
the end of 2014.
Clough’s chief executive officer Kevin Gallagher said the contract is consistent with the strategy to grow Clough’s near-shore marine business in co-operation with BAM. This is the third contract Clough has been awarded on the Ichthys LNG project.
The BAM Clough joint venture has also been awarded a contract by international oil and gas service company Bechtel, for the design and construction of the Chevron-operated Wheatstone Project LNG product loading facility and tug berths near Onslow, Western Australia. The contract is valued at approximately A$400 million (US$413 million). The scope of work includes the design and construction of a 1.2km jetty with operations platform, a product loading platform with a single LNG and condensate load- out berth, and associated piping modules and piping installation. Engineering, procurement and planning work for the project commenced in February 2012 with construction activities
Mermaid Marine to receive newbuild
Mermaid Marine Australia has seen the first of three newbuild offshore support vessels launched by ASL Marine in Singapore. The contract is worth a total of about A$75 million (US$77 million) for the construction of two floating production support vessels and a platform supply vessel. ASL Marine expects to deliver two more vessels to Mermaid Marine at the end of this year and the second quarter
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of 2013. The offshore vessel, Mermaid Strait,
is due to work in a multi-year contract with Woodside Petroleum off Western Australia.
Meanwhile Australian ship delivery specialists, International Maritime Services (IMS), has introduced a carbon offset option for all delivery voyages, through a strategic alliance with Yacht Carbon Offset, the Lloyd’s Register Quality
Assurance certified specialists. Under this programme, greenhouse gas emissions from the fuel burned by participating vessels will be counterbalanced by equivalent emissions reductions from verified green energy projects. Brendan Cooley, chief operating officer at the company, said IMS is the first ship delivery company in the world to offer clients a carbon offset initiative.
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