Woodside’s Scarborough project advances as FPU topsides, hull come together
Woodside Energy Ltd. has advanced the Scarborough project in Western Australia with the joining together of the topsides and hull for the Scarborough floating production unit (FPU).
With the milestone, the Scarborough energy project is now over 82% complete. First LNG cargo is targeted for second-half 2026.
Teams from Woodside, McDermott, QMW, and COSCO worked on fabrication of the structures and on bringing them together. Topsides fabrication was completed at McDermott's joint venture yard, Qingdao McDermott Wuchuan (QMW), in Qingdao, China, while the hull was constructed by COSCO in its Qidong shipyard, also in China.
Earlier this month, structures were transported offshore, and the 30,000-metric-ton topside was installed onto the 37,000-metric-ton hull via floatover off the coast of Dalian, China. Following the floatover, the FPU arrived at CIMC's Raffles yard in Yantai, China, for final integration works before sailaway. Once complete, the FPU will be moored 375 km off the coast of Karratha, Western Australia.
The Scarborough project is set to produce up to 8 million tonnes/year of LNG and contribute up to 225 terajoules/day of domestic gas supply into the Western Australian market.