McDermott to help with Ichthys LNG expansion
Upstream services firm McDermott said November 18 it secured an engineering contract to help extend production at the Ichthys LNG project in Australia.
Japanese energy company INPEX operates the LNG project off the northwest coast of Western Australia. McDermott secured an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, its third, to help with expansions at the facility.
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“McDermott's EPC scope involves a booster compression module which will extend the production from the gas reservoir to the central processing facility,” the company explained. “McDermott is currently undertaking umbilicals, risers and flowlines as part of an expansion of the existing offshore facilities.”
INPEX made a final investment decision on the LNG facility in 2012 and gas production commenced six years later. Ichthys has a nameplate capacity of 8.9mn mt/yr.
The Japanese company labelled a recent shipment as carbon-neutral. The carbon footprint was lowered using carbon credits applied to greenhouse gas emissions across the entire natural gas supply chain.
McDermott provided no details on the value of the contract or work completion benchmarks.