Clough today announced that Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. has awarded a contract for hook-up services on the Ichthys LNG Project Central Processing Facility. The Ichthys CPF will become the world’s largest semi-submersible platform with a topsides weight of 70,000 tonnes.
The scope of work includes the preparation and execution of offshore hook-up activities and assistance to commissioning. Work will commence in the first quarter of 2016 with the mobilisation of engineering and technical teams to the SHI fabrication yard located in Geoje, Korea before moving offshore in the Browse Basin, 200 km off the northern coastline of Western Australia.
Project management will be executed from Clough’s office in Perth with the technical support of Clough’s Korean joint venture, CloughCoens.
The Ichthys LNG Project (we spoke about this here and here) is a joint venture operated by INPEX in partnership with Total, CPC Corporation Taiwan and the Australian subsidiaries of Tokyo Gas, Osaka Gas, Kansai Electric Power, Chubu Electric Power and Toho Gas. It is among the most significant oil and gas projects in the world with the largest offshore facilities in the industry, a state-of-the-art onshore processing facility and an 890 km pipeline linking these facilities for an operational life of at least 40 years.
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