Construction
CONOCOPHILLIPS Australia, operator of the Barossa joint venture, has awarded an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation (EPCI) contract for the Barossa Gas Export Pipeline off the north-west coast of Ausralia to Allseas Marine Contractors Australia Pty Ltd. The terms of the contract includes procurement, transportation and installation of the 260-kilometre pipeline, project management, engineering and associated services. The Barossa offshore gas and light condensate project is currently in the front-end
SANTOS GLNG’s $750 million Roma East project has marked a significant milestone, with the natural gas compression facility officially handed over to the operations team. First gas from the Roma East field flowed in February this year and with commissioning now safely completed, the plant is fully operational. The Roma East project involves bringing 480 wells online, including drilling about 430 new wells, connecting existing appraisal wells, and drilling pre-development
WOODSIDE has announced that the Greater Enfield Project produced first oil through the Ngujima-Yin floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) located off the north-west coast of Western Australia. The Greater Enfield Project was approved in 2016, to develop the Laverda Canyon, Norton over Laverda and Cimatti oil accumulations through a subsea tie-back to the Ngujima-Yin FPSO, located over the Vincent field. Total investment for the project was approximately US$1.9
AUSTRALIAN Industrial Energy (AIE) has announced another important milestone in the development of its Port Kembla Gas Terminal (PKGT) with the award of the key wharf facility and pipeline construction contract for the LNG import facility. The contract was awarded to the SCSB joint venture which comprises Spiecapag and Soletanche Bachy, which are international specialists in the core construction works required to build the PKGT wharf facility and pipeline connection
CONOCOPHILLIPS Australia, operator of the Darwin LNG project, has announced that it will invest in an innovative battery project projected to reduce the facility’s carbon emissions from power generation by 20%.. The battery will enable the existing turbines to run at maximum efficiency and remove the need to run an additional turbine, saving thousands of tonnes of fuel gas and reducing maintenance costs. Darwin LNG will become the world’s first
The plan for development and operation (PDO) of the second phase of the Johan Sverdrup field development has been formally approved by Norwegian authorities. Construction has also started on the field’s second processing platform at Aibel’s yard in Haugesund. “This is a big day for Equinor and the other Johan Sverdrup partners comprising Lundin Norway, Petoro, Aker BP and Total. Johan Sverdrup is a world-class field that will provide value
GLOBAL hydraulics leader Enerpac is introducing to Australasia new Super Lift hydraulic gantry models that provide a higher lift capacity on a narrow 2 ft. track gauge for precise lifting of heavy loads in compact spaces. The new SL100 and SL200 gantries further extend Enerpac’s globally proven Super Lift range and can lift loads from 60-400 tonnes for demanding industries including manufacturing and materials handling, rail, oil and gas, power
The Western Australia Government has teamed up with The University of Western Australia (UWA) and the LNG industry to develop a world-first microscale LNG plant, as part of an LNG Futures Facility in Kwinana. In Shanghai, representing Western Australia at the 19th International Conference & Exhibition on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG19), Premier Mark McGowan was joined by industry leaders and UWA to make the announcement. The State Government will provide
WOODSIDE has awarded four contracts for front-end engineering design activities for the proposed Scarborough Project off the north west coast of Western Australia/ The contracts are for engineering activities related to the upstream development’s floating production unit, the export trunkline and the subsea umbilical risers and flowlines. Each contract includes an option to progress to execute phase activities, which is subject to, among other conditions, a positive final investment decision
SANTOS has signed a five year extension of its Cooper Basin crane operations contract with South Australian business Max Cranes. Max Cranes is a South Australian owned and managed crane provider, based in Port Augusta. The company employs 123 people in South Australia, with 27 directly supporting the Cooper Basin. This contract is a five year extension of the current agreement, awarded in 2016 following a competitive tender process. Santos
