Ichthys News

McDermott completes Ichthys installation

Nov 12, 2014

McDermott International delivered its 7,200-ton riser support structure (RSS) tower for the Ichthys project in the Browse basin, about 124mi off Western Australia. Engineered in Singapore and fabricated on Batam Island, Indonesia, the RSS tower is more than 328ft tall…

McDermott finalizes Ichthys valves

Oct 02, 2014

Wojciech Zmudzinski, chief pipeline engineer for McDermott (right) with an INPEX Ichthys Project representative during a valve manufacturing inspection at a factory in Italy. (Photo: Business Wire) McDermott…

Expro gets US$50 million Ichthys contract

Oct 15, 2014

Expro obtained a US$50 million contract to supply a high rate well testing package and ancillary services for the Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG Project, off Australia. Upon the terms of agreement, Expro will provide well testing, large bore subsea landing string…

Mega-projects: mega spending

Dec 01, 2014

Offshore oil and gas mega projects are increasing in scale and cost. Some 41% of ExxonMobil’s 2015 capital spending for projects under construction in 2015 is likely to be directed to one project alone. Neda Djahansouzi, Energy Researcher…

The biggest projects

Dec 01, 2014

OE asked Infield Systems to provide insights on today’s biggest offshore oil & gas projects. Top five global offshore projects currently  under development (by capital spending) What…

Most challenging

Dec 01, 2014

As development gets deeper, so does pipelay operations. OE asked some of the leaders in the field what they see as the most challenging aspects of deepwater pipelay. EMAS AMC EMAS AMC’s newbuild Lewek Constellation…

Pay for Santos at Lasseter-1/ST1

Aug 25, 2014

Santos hit a gas discovery at the Lasseter-1/ST1 exploration well, offshore Western Australia.  Map of WA-274-P from Inpex The block and its surrounding areas are considered an area of high exploration potential…

Hydro Deck begins module offloading for Ichthys

Sep 26, 2014

Australia’s AG&P ALE Ventures deployed the Hydro Deck to deliver the first modules to the Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG project. Over the course of the project, the Hydro Deck will offload more than 200 large, pre-fabricated modules from sea to ground…

Neptune bags Ichthys contracts

Sep 18, 2014

Neptune Marine Services has been awarded two subcontracts by McDermott Australia for the Ichthys LNG Project. McDermott is the appointed main contractor for the subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF) engineering, procurement, construction and installation portion of the project…

AUV’s survey Apache’s assets

Oct 03, 2014

UTEC Survey’s Australian business unit completed a major infield inspection covering 550km of pipelines and 20 infield structures, off northwestern Australia using its Gavia autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV). One of the AUVs in a sling…

Inpex transfers Malaysian interest to Santos

Sep 02, 2014

Inpex Corp. reached an agreement to transfer a 25% participating interest in the deepwater Block S offshore East Malaysia to Australia-based Santos. Block S is located in the Sabah basin and covers 574sq km with a water depth ranging from 200m to 1500m…

Inpex launches Ichthys FPSO hull

Jul 07, 2014

About two-and-a-half years after construction began, Japan’s Inpex Corp. launched the hull of its Ichthys FPSO from the dry dock of the Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering yard in Okpo, South Korea, the Japanese operator announced today…

Total shoots for capital discipline

Sep 22, 2014

Total's production should grow to about 2.8MMboe/d in 2017, as 15 major projects start-up in the period from now, the French super major said today (22 September). But, strict capital discipline will also be key, in addition to selling an additional US$10 billion of assets in 2015-17…

Woodside selects Lloyds for inspection

Sep 17, 2014

Woodside Petroleum has awarded Lloyd’s Register Energy a three-year global inspection contract to help ensure components and equipment Woodside procures globally meet quality expectations. Woodside is the largest independent oil and gas company in Australia…

Santos discovers gas-condensate in Browse basin

Aug 22, 2014

Santos announced the discovery of gas-condensate at the Lasseter-1 exploration well in WA-274-P, located in the Browse basin, offshore Western Australia. The Lasseter-1 well is located approximately 35km east-southeast of Santos’ Crown…

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