McDermott Completes Final Ichthys Offshore Work

McDermott International April 29 announced it has completed the final offshore campaign for the Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG Project, located offshore Western Australia.

This was the second of two remaining work packages left under McDermott's contract, the company said. The final offshore campaign involved subsea tiebacks to new drill centres and was executed by McDermott's Lay Vessel 108 (LV 108).

"The final campaign was executed in a live producing field, and as such, we put in place additional risk and controls management that ensured our success and met all of the customer expectations," said Ian Prescott, McDermott's senior vice president for Asia Pacific

McDermott said it has a small fabrication scope remaining to be completed at its fabrication yard in Batam, Indonesia, which will conclude its work packages for the Ichthys LNG Project in its entirety in 2019.

The Ichthys LNG Project involves liquefying natural gas lifted from the Ichthys gas-condensate field offshore Western Australia at an onshore gas liquefaction plant constructed in Darwin, Northern Territory, and producing and shipping approximately 8.9mn metric tons/year of LNG and about 1.65mn mt/yr of LPG, along with approximately 100,000 barrels/day of condensate at peak.  

Approximately 70% of the LNG produced by Ichthys LNG is scheduled to be supplied to Japanese customers.