Woodside awards Pluto-Karratha interconnector project contract

May 11, 2020
Woodside Petroleum Ltd. has let a supply and fabrication contract for the planned Pluto-Karratha gas plant interconnector project on the Burrup Peninsula of northwest Western Australia to Civmec Construction and Engineering.

Woodside Petroleum Ltd. has let a supply and fabrication contract for the planned Pluto-Karratha gas plant interconnector project on the Burrup Peninsula of northwest Western Australia to Civmec Construction and Engineering.

The work involves Civmec fabricating the structural steel, piping, a module and skids within the Pluto LNG plant which will be used to support the interconnector project. Construction is expected to take 7 months, beginning this year.

The interconnector is proposed to transport gas from the Pluto facility to the North West Shelf project’s LNG plant via a 5 km pipeline to be built along the existing Dampier to Bunbury natural gas trunkline corridor.

A final investment decision on the pipeline component of the interconnector was made in November 2019 and DDG Operations Pty Ltd. (part of the Australian Gas Infrastructure Group) was contracted to construct the pipeline as well as its ongoing operation and maintenance.

The interconnector will create opportunities to take advantage of future excess capacity at the Karratha gas plant. It also has the potential to accelerate future developments of Pluto field gas reserves as well as third party resources.

The on-stream date is scheduled for 2022.