Amec FW Lands Ichthys Work
Monday 3 October 2016
UK services player to offer competency assessments to teams on giant Inpex LNG project in Australia
Amec Foster Wheeler has scooped a project consultancy contract from Inpex for the giant Ichthys liquefied natural gas project off Australia.
The UK services player will provide a team of production and maintenance assessors to carry out competency assessments for the operations and maintenance teams across all project assets.
The contract includes the central processing facility, floating production, storage and offloading unit and the Bladin Point onshore LNG processing plant.
The contract will run until April and work will be carried out in South Korea, offshore Western Australia and also on the onshore facility.
First gas from the US$34 billion Ichthys project is currently slated for the third quarter of 2017 and will see natural gas and condensate from the field undergo initial processing at a central processing platform to extract water and remove impurities in order to make the gas suitable for transmission to Darwin via the subsea pipeline.
Inpex started up the main power generators at the two onshore facilities in the middle of September.
Condensate from the field will be stored on an FPSO which will be periodically offloaded to shuttle carriers for export directly to market.
The two-train project is expected to reach peak production of 8.9 million tonnes per annum of LNG, 1.6 million tpa of liquid petroleum gas and up to 100,000 barrels per day of condensate.