Japan's Inpex has been awarded an exploration permit for Release Area WA-532-P, close to its Ichthys LNG development, in Australia’s 2016 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release. Inpex Browse will hold a 100% participating interest in the block…
Audrey Leon takes a look through some of the industry’s biggest ongoing projects by capex in 2017. Five of the 10 biggest projects by capex were offshore projects in 2017, led by Inpex’s Ichthys LNG project offshore Australia. Ichthys…
The Ichthys Venturer floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility has arrived in Australian waters today (14 August), as Inpex gears up to begin hook-up and commissioning activities. The Ichthys Venturer at the DSME shipyard…
Australia's Santos has agreed to partly fund and lead a new 3D seismic survey over the beehive prospect in Australia's Bonaparte Basin in return for an up to 80% farm-in option in the permit. Santos calls Beehive, which sits on the WA-488-P permit…
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s floating production, storage and offloading facility (FPSO) has been safely moored today in the Ichthys field, 220km off the north coast of Western Australia. The 336m-long FPSO, Ichthys Venturer…
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has delivered French oil major Total's deepwater Egina floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The vessel was completed at SHI's Geoje-shipyard under a US$3 billion turnkey project, and set sail for Nigeria on 31 October 2017…
A steady recovery is in motion in the subsea business with the potential for major subsea awards in the remaining months of this year and throughout 2018, according to TechnipFMC's boss Doug Pferdehirt. The firm won US$2.5 billion in…
Wood Group secured a new, five-year contract with Inpex Operations Australia (Inpex Australia) to provide subsea engineering services for the integrity of the Ichthys LNG Project, offshore Western Australia. Image from Inpex…
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility Ichthys Venturer has set sail for Australia. The 336m-long long ship-shaped, offshore facility has started a 5600km voyage that will take about one month to complete…
Inpex's Ichthys Explorer, the world's largest semisubmersible platform safely arrived in the Australian waters of the Browse basin, marking a milestone for the Ichthys LNG project. The Ichthys Explorer…
Wood Group has won a five-year contract with INPEX Operations Australia to provide subsea engineering services for the integrity of the Ichthys LNG Project, offshore Western Australia. The operations of all subsea assets and the gas export pipeline will be supported under the contract…
The floating production systems (FPS) market has been heavily impacted by the oil price downturn. Orders declined significantly from 17 in 2014 to four in 2015 and zero in 2016. There have been signs of a recovery in 2017, with seven orders booked year to date…
The Ichthys Explorer, the Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG project’s central processing facility (CPF), sailed away from its construction site in Geoje, South Korea in route to the Ichthys field offshore Western Australia, following the completion of shipyard commissioning and preparation work…
Marine and offshore engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore has successfully completed its position keeping role for the Ichthys central processing facility (CPF), which is now moored to a storm safe condition in Australian waters. On 29 May 2017…
Engineering company Monadelphous Group has been awarded a major, long-term offshore maintenance services contract for Inpex Operations Australia associated with the Ichthys LNG project. The contract is for an initial six years with a further two…