Ichthys News

Remacut completes McDermott VLS at new workshop

Jun 01, 2016

Italy's Remacut is due to deliver its first system from its new assembly workshop in Genova.  The delivery will be a portable 150-tonne vertical lay system for McDermott, to be used initially on the firm's V108 vessel for Inpex's Ichthys project off Australia…

Ichthys uses Sonardyne SensorView

May 10, 2016

Software that enables acoustic data to be streamed in real-time from subsea structures as they are installed has helped to reduce non-production time (NPT) for independent oil and gas producer, INPEX, and its survey contractor, Neptune Geomatics…

McDermott wins work, increases revenues

May 06, 2016

McDermott International has been awarded three separate projects by a major national oil company for the integrated engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) services in multiple fields in the Arabian Gulf. In addition to this…

McDermott's DLV 2000 christened

Apr 14, 2016

McDermott's newbuild derrick lay vessel DLV 2000 flagship was christened at the yard of construction firm Keppel Singmarine, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M). The DLV 2000, which joins McDermott's 13-strong fleet…

EIA: World's largest LNG exporter could be Australia

Mar 31, 2016

Chevron’s Gorgon project could put Australia s on track to be the largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter in the world at 11.5 Bcf/d, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Gorgon…

Ichthys LNG one step closer

Feb 01, 2016

Audrey Raj speaks to Japanese gas giant INPEX about its US$34 billion Ichthys LNG development and the key components that make up the offshore production facilities of the project. The monoethylene…

Keppel FELS names Floatel's latest unit

Mar 11, 2016

Singapore's Keppel FELS is on track to deliver a fifth high-specification accommodation semisubmersible to Floatel International following the unit's naming ceremony today.  Once delivered, the Floatel Triumph semisubmersible, built to Keppel's proprietary SSAUTM 5000NG design…

McDermott puts newbuild DLV 2000 to work

Feb 23, 2016

Engineering and construction firm McDermott International has announced a string of new contracts offshore Australia and a few frame agreement focused on subsea projects offshore India. The frame frame agreement is with L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering (LTHE)…

Clough awarded Ichthys hook-up gig

Jan 27, 2016

Samsung Heavy Industries Co. (SHI) has awarded Clough a contract for hook-up services on the Ichthys LNG Project Central Processing Facility (CPF).  The scope of work includes the preparation and execution of offshore hook-up activities and assistance to commissioning…

Xodus inks Ichthys operating manuals contract

Dec 04, 2015

Xodus Group has won a project to a deliver a suite of more than 40 offshore operating manuals for the Ichthys LNG project operated by INPEX off the coast of Western Australia. The Ichthys field was the largest discovery of hydrocarbon liquids in Australia for 40 years…

FPSOs: On the horizon

Jan 01, 2016

While the oil price has sucked much wind out of the sails of the FPSO industry, work must go on.  And there are still quite a few projects lined up from 2016-2018. Infield Systems presents this list of conversion and newbuild construction projects…

DW: Slow going for offshore prospects in 2016

Dec 28, 2015

This year, the offshore oil and gas industry has had to come to terms with the worst downturn for more than a decade. With commodity prices plummeting to an eleven-year low in December, it is time to reflect on the year gone by and consider the outlook for the year to come…

Ichthys 890km pipeline installed

Nov 05, 2015

Japan's INPEX has completed offshore pipelay of the 890km-long, 42in diameter gas export pipeline for the Ichthys LNG project. Pipelay on the project, which INPEX says is the longest subsea pipeline in the southern hemisphere and the third longest subsea pipeline in the world…

Hydratight seals deal with Subsea 7

Dec 02, 2015

Image: MORGRIP mechanical connector/Hydratight Hydratight has won a pipeline connector order from Subsea 7 to support their Emergency Pipeline Repair System (EPRS) project in Australia…

Inpex sees delays at Ichthys

Sep 11, 2015

Japan’s INPEX Corp. announced an updated expected production start-up schedule and raised the anticipated production capacity of the Ichthys LNG project, offshore Western Australia. Ichthys layout…

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