McDermott of the US has won an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) project after successfully completing front-end design services for a booster compression module for the Australian Ichthys LNG project operated by Inpex of Japan.
The module will be added to the “Ichthys Explorer” central processing facility, located off the northwest coast of Western Australia.
The Ichthys plant came on stream in 2018 and produces almost 9 million tonnes per annum of LNG from two processing Trains, while the Ichthys gas field is offshore northwest Australia and connected to the plant by a 890-kilometre subsea pipeline.
Shares in Ichthys LNG held by Inpex amount to around 66 percent of equity, while French major TotalEnergies has 26 percent.
Micro-stakes are additionally held by customers CPC Corp. of Taiwan and Japan’s main utilities and LNG buyers, JERA Co. Inc., Tokyo Gas, Osaka Gas, Kansai Electric and Toho Gas.
“Ichthys LNG is ranked among the most significant and complex energy developments in the world,” explained Mahesh Swaminathan, McDermott's Senior Vice President for the Asia-Pacific region.
“We've been there since 2012, and we are very familiar with the Ichthys gas field,” added Swaminathan.
This is the third contract McDermott has been awarded for the project after successfully completing FEED services and converting contracts to EPCI.
McDermott's EPC scope involves a booster compression module which will extend the production from the gas reservoir to the central processing facility.
McDermott is currently undertaking work on umbilicals, risers and flowlines as part of an expansion of the existing offshore facilities.
The work will be executed from McDermott's Engineering Centres in Perth, Western Australia, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and Chennai on the East Coast of India.
“Fabrication will be completed at McDermott's yard on Batam island in Indonesia, which has been delivering complex offshore and onshore structures for over 50 years,” added McDermott.
