LNG

Australian LNG plant operator Santos has started front-end engineering and design for the Dorado project in the Bedout Sub-Basin offshore Western Australia and expects to boost natural gas supplies for the domestic market.

Japanese companies JGC Corp. and Chiyoda Corp. and US engineer KBR who built the onshore Ichthys liquefaction and export plant at Bladin Point near Darwin in Australia, have lost a Court of Appeal case for a US$1.9 billion claim against a power station sub-contractor.