LNG

Chevron Australia and its partners in the Gorgon Joint Venture – ExxonMobil and Shell – have taken a Final Investment Decision (FID) on Gorgon Phase-3 off the West Australian coast.

Saipem, the leading liquefied natural gas and energy project engineering company, has signed a new contract with the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) for the Jafurah Gas Development in the Arab kingdom.

The Saudi project also involves the construction of about 835 kilometres (519 miles) of pipelines.

“The project involves the construction of a hydrocarbon collection system and the transport of gas and condensate to the new Jafurah plant, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia,” said Milan-based Saipem.

The Italian company will also build a system to transport water associated with the separation of the treated gas.

The engineering, procurement and construction contract includes the supply of materials and commissioning of the pipelines for the transportation of gas, condensate and production water.

“The award of this new project from Aramco consolidates a long-standing relationship and Saipem's strategic positioning in the Middle East,” said Francesco Caio, Saipem's Chief Executive.

“The agreement confirms the trust and appreciation of our customers in the project management capacity and in the cutting-edge engineering and technological services that Saipem is able to offer,” stated Caio.

Saipem was recently awarded two new offshore contracts for transportation and installation activities for a total amount of more than $600M relating to Australian LNG and Turkish pipeline natural gas projects.

LNG awards

Saipem was chosen by Chevron Corp. in Australia for the Jansz-lo Compression Project, designing and developing the infrastructure and the gas field located around 200 kilometres offshore the northwest coast of Australia, at water depths of around 1,400 metres.

The Jansz-lo field is part of the Chevron-operated Gorgon LNG Project, which is supplied with feed gas from a group of different offshore fields and is one of the world’s largest LNG plants located on Barrow Island.

Additionally, Saipem is working on the offshore portion of the North Field production project in the Arab Gulf underpinning the Qatar’s LNG expansion.

It has also been contracted along with Technip Energies and Russian firm NIPIGas, a subsidiary of the Gazprom Neft Group, to help develop the Arctic LNG II project for Yamal LNG operator, Russia’s Novatek.

Chevron, the US major whose assets include with two large liquefied natural gas plants in Western Australia, said it signed a sales and purchase agreement with GS Caltex Corp. for the delivery of LNG to South Korea from Chevron’s global supply portfolio.

Jan 25 (LNGJ) - The Gorgon LNG export plant on Barrow Island in Western Australia, operated by Chevron Corp., has entered the second week of a shutdown of one of its three liquefaction Trains. Chevron said Train 3 at the plant had been closed since January 16 because of technical issues. The other shareholders in the Gorgon plant are Royal Dutch Shell and ExxonMobil Corp. The US$54 billion Gorgon facility came on stream in March 2016 with nameplate capacity of 15.6 million tonnes per annum from its three Trains. The plant mainly supplies Japanese customers such as Osaka Gas, Tokyo Gas and Jera Co. Inc.

Chevron Corp. said production was on stream at the second processing Train at the onshore Wheatstone LNG plant in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, bringing the Australians closer to surpassing the world's largest exporter Qatar in LNG output.

Chevron Corp., the operator of the Gorgon LNG export plant on Barrow Island in Western Australia, is proceeding with the second stage of upstream development for 11 new feed-gas wells in the prolific offshore fields.

July 18 (LNGJ) – The 172,000 cubic metres capacity “Beidou Star” is scheduled to deliver a shipment on July 24 to the Chinese Dalian import terminal, owned by PetroChina, from the Gorgon export plant on Barrow Island in Western Australia, operated by Chevron, according to shipping data. The 174,100 cubic metres capacity “Cesi Qingdao” will deliver a cargo on July 24 to the Tangshan terminal in Hebei province, owned by Sinopec, from the Australia Pacific LNG plant in Gladstone in Queensland.

Chevron Corp. has provided an overview of the company’s operational performance and future growth plans at its 2017 annual meeting in Midland, Texas, where executives said the Wheatstone LNG project in Western Australia was on track for its start up in the next few weeks.

Chevron Corp. reached a landmark in its Australian LNG developments by starting up the third processing Train of its US$54-billion Gorgon plant on Barrow Island in Western Australia, just one year after the first cargo was shipped.

Chevron Corp. said it was on scheduled to recommence LNG exports in the next few days from the new Gorgon liquefaction plant on Barrow Island in Western Australia after a three-month shutdown for repairs.