By the OGJ Online Staff
HOUSTON, Apr. 19 -- Woodside Energy Ltd. has awarded a $139.7 million engineering, procurement, and construction contract to a joint venture led by Kellogg Brown & Root Inc. for expansion of LNG operations in western Australia.
Woodside Energy awarded the contract on behalf of the North West Shelf Venture participants. Kellogg Brown & Root is a subsidiary of Halliburton Co.
The Kellogg joint venture comprises Halliburton Australia, Hatch-Kaiser Engineers, Clough Engineering, and JGC Corp.
The expansion, expected to cost more than $500 million, will be built on the Burrup Peninsula. An engineering design team of 400 will work out of the Kellogg joint venture's Perth, Australia, office.
The Kellogg joint venture previously was awarded an early-engineering procurement and construction contract for initial work required for the expansion project.
The expansion project will see the construction of a LNG processing train, with a capacity of 4.2 million tonnes/year of LNG. A 42-in. pipeline connecting the plant and the venture's gas fields will also be built.
First LNG production from the new LNG train is scheduled for mid-2004.
The six equal participants in the North West Shelf Venture are: Woodside Energy Ltd. (operator); BHP Petroleum (North West Shelf) Pty. Ltd.; BP Developments Australia Pty. Ltd.; Chevron Australia Pty. Ltd.; Japan Australia LNG (MIMI) Pty. Ltd.; and Shell Development (Australia) Pty. Ltd.