LNG

Woodside Petroleum, the leading LNG plant operator in Western Australian, has named the new executive leadership team in the run-up to the completion in the second quarter of Woodside’s merger with the spun-off oil and gas business of Anglo-Australian commodities company BHP.

Australian LNG operator Woodside has awarded a European-US grouping comprising units of Europe’s Subsea 7 and Houston-based Schlumberger, a significant contract for the subsea development of the Scarborough gas field to provide feed gas for the Pluto LNG plant expansion.

The Scarborough field is located about 380-kilometres offshore northwest Australia and is one of just two such feed-gas projects under way in Australia, with the other being the Barossa field to extend the lifespan of Darwin LNG.

Subsea 7 said the project work scope covered the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) of subsea pipelines and production systems.

The development will include 45 kilometres of rigid flowlines, six flexible flowline risers, 42 kilometres of umbilicals and eight trees, as well as associated subsea equipment, in water depths of about 950 metres.

The Subsea Integration Alliance team established during the initial front-end engineering and design phase, awarded in January 2019, will now transition into the full EPCI phase.

Project management and engineering will take place in Perth, Australia, with support from Subsea 7’s Global Project Centre’s offices in Malaysia, UK and France and various OneSubsea offices.

Offshore activities are targeted to take place from 2023 to 2025 using Subsea 7's reel-lay and flex-lay vessels.

Joint effort

“This award is the result of a strong and collaborative early engagement process with Woodside, working with a high level of transparency and cooperation during the pre-tender and FEED phases,” said Olivier Blaringhem, Chief Executive of the Subsea Integration Alliance.

“It demonstrates the potential value of Subsea Integration Alliance and its optimised and integrated offering capacity. We look forward to working with Woodside to deliver the project successfully and safely while maximising the client’s production objectives,” stated Blaringhem.

David Bertin, Vice President for Subsea 7 Global Projects Centre and Asia Pacific, said the group was proud to be awarded this contract by Woodside.

“This builds on our long-standing relationship with the client and our successful track record of projects executed offshore Australia,” explained Bertin.

“Our local office in Perth will be supported by Subsea 7’s Global Projects Centre, underlining the strength and breadth of our project management capabilities and the capacity to deliver complex projects,” added Bertin.

Subsea noted that it defined a large contract as being between US$300 million and US$500M and the value range refers to Subsea 7’s share of the contract.

The Subsea Integration Alliance is a non-incorporated strategic global alliance between Subsea 7 and OneSubsea, the subsea technologies, production and processing systems division of oil and gas services company Schlumberger.

The alliance brings together field development planning, project delivery and total lifecycle solutions under an extensive technology and services portfolio.

Woodside Petroleum, the Australian LNG plant operator and international commodities company BHP, are advancing with their Scarborough gas field project to underpin the Burrup Gas Hub planned for Western Australia.

BHP, the Anglo-Australian global commodities company, has awarded the world’s first LNG-fuelled bulk carrier tender to a Singapore-based shipping line with the aim of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 30 percent per voyage while delivering iron ore from Western Australia to China.

Anglo-Australian global commodities and energy company BHP with long-standing stakes in Western Australian LNG, natural gas and mining and with LNG-powered shipping plans said it planned to hire 1,500 additional people to support its workforce operating across Australia.

BHP, the Anglo-Australian global commodities, mining and energy company whose assets include Australian LNG and gas stakes, said it would award a contract in the first quarter of 2020 after receiving 17 bids for the provision of LNG-powered bulk carriers for transporting iron ore to Asia.

Woodside Petroleum, the liquefied natural gas plant operator in Western Australia, said it had decided to advance with the pipeline project, the Pluto-North West Shelf Interconnector, to connect the Pluto LNG and the North West Shelf Karratha Gas Plant and had entered into contractual arrangements for the construction.

Australian LNG operator Woodside Petroleum said the resource estimates of the Scarborough gas field offshore Western Australia, set to underpin its Pluto LNG plant expansion and the Burrup Peninsula Hub, have been increased by more than 50 percent.

Oct 17 (LNGJ) - BHP, the giant Australian energy and commodities company, said in a quarterly update that all its major projects under development were on track with the Ruby oil and gas project in LNG-producer Trinidad and Tobago given government approval in September. The company also gave details of Australian natural gas plans.

   “The Australian Bass Strait West Barracouta project is tracking to plan and is expected to achieve first production in the 2021 calendar year,” said BHP of the natural gas project offshore the state of Victoria. BHP noted that Victoria’s Minerva gas field reached end-of-field in September and production ceased at the Minerva Gas Plant. BHP agreed to sell its 90 percent interest in the Minerva Gas Plant to the Casino Henry joint venture after the cessation of gas processing from the Minerva field.

Woodside, the Australian LNG plant operator, said it awarded a contract to the local subsidiary of Dutch dredging and heavy-lift company Boskalis to undertake seabed intervention and excavation works for the proposed Scarborough natural gas pipeline.