INPEX Chairman Naoki Kuroda
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard
Northern Territory Chief Minister Paul Henderson
TOTAL E&P Australia Managing Director Mike Sangster
2012/05/18
Australian Prime Minister, the Hon. Julia Gillard, MP, officially launched construction of the Ichthys LNG Project at a ground breaking ceremony at Blaydin Point in Darwin, Northern Territory today.
At the invitation of INPEX CORPORATION Chairman Naoki Kuroda, the Prime Minister joined Northern Territory Chief Minister, the Hon. MLA Paul Henderson, MLA, and Total E&P Australia Managing Director Mike Sangster to signal the commencement of site works for Australia's newest LNG project.
The Hon. Adam Giles, the Chief Minister of The Northern Territory (second from right) and INPEX participants
2013/09/18
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project (the Project) today officially opened the doors of its Accommodation Village at Howard Springs, Darwin. Named Manigurr-ma Village after the Larrakia name for the Stringybark tree, it will be home for up to 3,500 workers when it is complete in mid-2014. About 1,000 of the Project's construction workforce will move in to the village over the next few months.
FPSO Steel Cutting Ceremony
2013/06/19
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project cut first steel yesterday for the hull of its Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility in Okpo, Korea. With fabrication of the hull underway, work on all of the Ichthys LNG Project's major offshore facilities has commenced.
Ribbon Cutting at CPF Steel Cutting Ceremony
2013/01/25
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project is on track to achieving first gas by the end of 2016 with the first steel cutting by Samsung Heavy Industries for what will be the world's largest semi-submersible platform.
The 150 metre by 110 metre large central processing facility (CPF) will displace 140,000 tonnes and will have a peak gas export rate of 1,657 MMscfd, making it the largest of its kind.
Christmas Tree
2014/11/25
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project’s first christmas tree systems have arrived in Australia.The tree systems left the subsea manufacturing facility at Bridge of Don in Aberdeen, Scotland on 3 October and arrived safely at GE’s Jandakot facility in Western Australia on Sunday 16 November 2014.The delivered christmas tree systems weigh more than 100 tonnes each with fittings and associated structures, featuring the latest technology to meet specific requirements of the Ichthys LNG Project.
RSS tower
2014/11/05
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project today successfully installed its Riser Support Structure (RSS) tower at the Ichthys Gas-condensate Field. The safe installation of the 6,500 ton structure by the deepwater construction vessel Aegir marks the beginning of the Project’s major installation campaign in the Browse Basin, offshore Western Australia.The completed RSS will be a physical, fixed support for flexible risers and dynamic umbilicals that connect subsea gathering systems to the Project’s semi-submersible central processing facility (CPF), currently under construction in Korea.
FPSO lower turret
2014/11/04
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project today took a major step toward completion of the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) facility when the lower turret began its integration with the FPSO facility.The unique 4,200 ton, 31 meter-tall structure was safely inserted into the hull of the FPSO, which is currently under construction at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME), in Okpo, South Korea.Three components make up the overall FPSO turret: the lower turret, the manifold and the gantry frame. When completed, the full turret will measure 85 meters in height and weigh 8,700 tons, making it one of the largest in the world.
Ichthys LNG Project Completes Manigurr-ma Village
2014/07/29
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project today announced the completion of its Accommodation Village at Howard Springs near Darwin in the Northern Territory.Manigurr-ma Village will provide a home for up to 3,500 Project personnel during peak construction.The 67 hectare village includes a 50-seat cinema, swimming pool, library, gym, running track, music room, basketball, beach volleyball and tennis courts, internet room and more. A twenty-four hour medical centre alleviates pressure on public health services and cuts unnecessary emergency call-outs.At full operation the village will employ about 200 management and maintenance staff.
Module unloading at MOF at Bladin Point, Darwin
2014/07/01
INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project is preparing for the next phase of its onshore construction effort, following the unloading of its first large pre-fabricated modules on June 29th 2014. The modules will be used to construct the Project’s LNG processing facilities at Bladin Point near Darwin, Australia. The Ichthys LNG Project’s pre-fabricated modules are being built at four yards in China, the Philippines and Thailand. Over the next 18 months, about 60 module shipments are scheduled to arrive in Darwin and more than 200 modules will be loaded.
Deep water installation vessel Castorone
2014/06/30
INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project commenced gas export pipeline (GEP) installation works on June 28th 2014, following the earlier arrival of the Saipem-operated, semi-submersible pipelay barge SEMAC-1 in the Northern Territory. The Project's 889 kilometre GEP will connect the onshore processing facilities near Darwin to the Ichthys gas-condensate field in the Browse Basin, offshore Western Australia.The SEMAC-1 will conduct the 164 kilometre shallow water pipelay installation which will take about 80 days. Once completed, the SEMAC-1 will transfer work to Saipem’s deep water installation vessel, Castorone, which will lay the remaining 718 kilometres of pipe to the Ichthys gas-condensate field.
Ichthys LNG Project
2014/06/25
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project has celebrated its most significant construction milestone to date after officially marking 50 per cent completion. Ichthys includes an offshore project with subsea facilities and two large floating platforms (central processing facility and floating production storage and offloading facility); an onshore project featuring a 8.4 million tonne per annum LNG plant in Darwin; and an 889 km 42-inch gas transmission pipeline. This time milestone means that half of the overall Project scope has been completed.
Drilling Rig「ENSCO 5006」
2014/04/30
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project has celebrated the arrival of its development drilling rig in Singapore, where it will undergo major upgrades before it is mobilised to the Ichthys gas-condensate field for the Project’s drilling campaign. Following completion of the upgrades in the shipyard, the rig will be towed to the Ichthys gas-condensate field to begin the production drilling and completion activities during the last quarter of 2014.
The First CPF Hull Block
2014/04/03
The first dry dock hull block erection was celebrated on 2 April 2014, with a ribbon cutting ceremony in the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje, South Korea, where the CPF is being constructed.The CPF is a very large floating facility that gathers natural gas and condensate from the Ichthys Field's subsea wells. Gas will undergo initial processing on the CPF, which will be permanently moored at the field, to extract condensate and water and remove impurities in order to make the gas suitable for transmission.With topside dimensions of 150 metres by 110 metres, the CPF will be the world’s largest semi-submersible platform. After the construction completion in 2015, it will be towed around 6,000 kilometres to the Ichthys Field in the Browse Basin, offshore Western Australia.
FPSO Keel Laying
2014/02/20
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project has celebrated a key milestone for its Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facility.
The first block of the keel was placed during a ceremony in the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in Okpo, South Korea, where the FPSO is being constructed.
Large pre-fabricated module
2015/04/13
The arrival of six large pre-fabricated modules weighing about 7,500 tons combined in two shipments from STP&I and AG&P rounded out first deliveries from all four yards fabricating equipment for the Ichthys LNG Project’s onshore liquefaction plant.
Nearly 60 large pre-fabricated modules have now been delivered safely to the site, with many already installed.
The pre-fabricated modules, which are up to around 90 meters in length, are key components of the project’s LNG processing facilities, and are being built at four fabrication yards in China, the Philippines and Thailand.
Deepwater pipelay
2015/02/09
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project has today started the deepwater pipelay for its 889 kilometer-long gas export pipeline (GEP). Saipem’s deepwater installation vessel Castorone will lay the remaining 718 kilometer offshore section of the 42-inch diameter GEP following the successful completion in November 2014 of the 164 kilometer shallow water section by the SEMAC-1. Deepwater pipelay is scheduled for completion in late 2015.
ENSCO-5006
2015/02/04
The INPEX-operated Ichthys LNG Project commenced drilling at the Ichthys gas-condensate field, about 200km off the Western Australian coast.
The first development well was spudded on February 3 by the Project’s development drilling rig ENSCO-5006, which recently arrived at the field after undergoing major upgrades in Singapore. The ENSCO-5006 will soon be joined by an additional rig, which will also take part in the drilling campaign.
The campaign will target the Brewster reservoir with 20 production wells. The wells will be drilled into reservoirs about 4,000 to 4,500 meters beneath the seabed.
