Woodside Awards Contract for West Oz Gas Link

Australia's Woodside has awarded a supply and fabrication contract to local engineering firm Civmec relating to the construction of a 5-km pipeline between its Pluto LNG plant and the North West Shelf project's Karratha gas plant, it said on May 11.

Woodside took a final investment decision on the interconnector project in November 2019, issuing a contract to DDG Operations for the building, operation and maintenance of the pipeline itself. Under Civmec's contract, the firm will fabricate structural steel, piping, a module and skids at the Pluto LNG plant, in order to support the project.

The interconnector is due on stream in 2022 and aims to optimise Woodside's processing of gas from offshore fields in Western Australia, by flowing excess gas at Pluto LNG to the Karratha plant, and vice versa.