LNG

March 19 (LNGJ) - Japanese energy company Inpex Corp., the main stakeholder in the Australian Ichthys LNG export plant under construction at Bladin Point near Darwin in the Northern Territory, said it was awarded an exploration permit for WA-533-P as operator in Australia’s latest acreage release. “The block is located off the northern coast of Western Australia and covers a surface area of 12,402 square kilometres. The block’s water depth ranges between approximately 50 metres and 600 metres,” said Inpex. The block lies on an offshore extension of the onshore Canning Basin in Western Australia where promising fields have already been discovered and developed. The Ichthys LNG project is being developed with French energy company Total and is scheduled to come on stream later in 2018.