Ichthys News

McDermott posts profit increase

Aug 11, 2015

McDermott International reported an increase in profits in 2Q, at US$11.5 million, up from a net loss of $7.4 million in the same period last year on revenues of $1.05 billion (up $570 million). McDermott says revenues for 2Q were positively…

Subsea 7 inks Ichthys contracts

Jul 03, 2015

Subsea 7 has been awarded four contracts by Chevron Australia and INPEX Operations Australia for the engineering, procurement and construction of an emergency pipeline repair system (EPRS) to be used offshore Australia. This EPRS project consists of developing a process of repair…

Mooring work begins at Ichthys

May 12, 2015

Mooring installation has gun at Inpex's Ichthys field in Australia's Browse Basin, the company announced on 8 May 2015. The first of 49 foundation piles was safely deployed and driven into the seabed on Wednesday, 6 May 2015, in 250m water depth…

Woodside's Browse FLNG enters FEED

Jul 01, 2015

After postponing a final investment decision due to the low oil prices last December, Australian operator Woodside Petroleum has announced it will press forward into the FEED phase for its long-struggling Browse LNG mega project. The…

Atlas secures INPEX contract

Jun 01, 2015

Atlas Knowledge has been awarded a contract by INPEX to provide training for production workers involved in the US$34 billion Ichthys LNG project.  The INPEX-operated project includes some of the world’s largest offshore facilities off the coast of Western Australia…

Petrofac wins Ichthys LNG work

Apr 08, 2015

INPEX awarded Petrofac an integrity and maintenance program development contract by for the Ichthys LNG Project, offshore Western Australia. The Ichthys field. From INPEX.   The INPEX…

Kongsberg in US$10 million Ichthys contract

Apr 14, 2015

Saipem awarded Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies a US$10 million contract for the delivery of subsea structures for the gas export pipeline project of the INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project. Image from Kongsberg…

Ensuring the integrity of fatigue-sensitive SCRs

May 01, 2015

Denise Smiles, of Optical Metrology Services Ltd (OMS), discusses how to correct internal HiLo misalignment between butted pipes. OMS’ automatic pipe end dimensioning tool. Images from OMS. Deepwater…

Development drilling starts on Ichthys

Feb 04, 2015

Development drilling has started on the INPEX-operated Ichthys gas-condensate field, part of the Ichthys LNG Project about 200km offshore Western Australian. The first of about 20 horizontal production wells to be drilled was spudded 3 February…

Santos, INPEX gain off Western Australia

Feb 25, 2015

Santos and INPEX were awarded two exploration permits offshore Western Australia. Image from INPEX.   Blocks WA-513-P and WA-514-P are located about 500km north-northeast of Broome and cover areas of 335sq km and 415sq km…

Ichthys deepwater pipelay underway

Feb 09, 2015

Deepwater pipelay on the 889km-long gas export pipeline (GEP) for INPEX' Ichthys LNG Project has started offshore Australia. Saipem’s deepwater installation vessel Castorone will lay the remaining 718km offshore section of the 42in. diameter…

McDermott wins Indonesia subsea contract

Mar 03, 2015

FMC Technologies awarded McDermott International a sizeable manifold and subsea safety isolation valve module fabrication contract for the Jangkrik fields located offshore Kalimantan, Indonesia. McDermott’s Batam Island facility in Indonesia…

FES gets Egina contract off Nigeria

Feb 24, 2015

Saipem awarded FES International a US$2 million contract to supply bend stiffener connectors (BSCs) for the Egina project. The BSCs will be used by global energy company, Total, at its third deep offshore development off the coast of Nigeria…

McDermott-Petrofac ink SURF alliance

Feb 25, 2015

Oil and gas services provider Petrofac has agreed to form a strategic marketing alliance with McDermott International in the deepwater, subsea umbilicals, risers and flowlines (SURF) sector. Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the two will form a five-year alliance…

Ichthys LNG gets RSS tower

Nov 06, 2014

The Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG project is moving forward with the installation of a 6500-tonne riser support structure (RSS) tower at the Ichthys Field, marking the beginning of the project’s major installation campaign. The Ichthys LNG project RSS…

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